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00:00:00.000 Welcome back to Daily Wire's special inaugural coverage.

00:00:02.540 We're approximately 30 minutes away from the beginning of the inauguration ceremony.

00:00:06.040 And right behind us, President Trump's motorcade is arriving here at the Capitol building

00:00:10.840 where he'll be taking the oath of office.

00:00:12.960 It's been a really chaotic last couple of days of trying to understand exactly what was happening

00:00:16.820 with all of the location changes based on weather and perhaps rumors are security threats to the inauguration.

00:00:23.020 But at this very moment, President Trump and I am turning around to look.

00:00:27.900 Oh, wow.

00:00:28.820 Yeah.

00:00:29.000 Hey, there he is.

00:00:29.840 There he is.

00:00:30.580 President Trump rolling up right behind us to the U.S. Capitol where he'll be sworn in

00:00:34.660 as the 47th President of the United States in only the second non-consecutive second term

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00:00:54.860 And here we are on a very cold 22-degree day in Washington, D.C., celebrating Donald Trump's historic inauguration as the 47th President of the United States.

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00:01:18.360 Guys, what a day.

00:01:21.080 Oh, yeah.

00:01:21.340 Truly the end, I think, of the Obama era.

00:01:25.880 You know, there was the possibility that that could have been true in 2016.

00:01:29.380 It ended up not being true.

00:01:30.800 Obama was able to really surge back and in many ways be the most influential figure in Washington, D.C. these last four years.

00:01:36.500 Today, I feel that his era is completely vanquished.

00:01:39.120 Donald Trump coming in in a unique position for a second term where he actually has a popular mandate, where he's had four years in sort of the political wilderness to learn from both the successes and failures of his first administration, and to face this unrelenting lawfare from the left, which really, I think, exposed what the left's true intentions are, not only for him, but for the country.

00:01:58.800 And he comes in an energized second-term president.

00:02:01.220 I actually would go even further.

00:02:03.300 I agree with all of that.

00:02:04.320 I think Obama is cooked.

00:02:05.840 But furthermore, I think the libs are more over right now than they have been in my entire life.

00:02:12.740 Oscar de la Renta bragging about making a dress for the second lady, Usha Vance.

00:02:17.820 That's right.

00:02:18.220 You've got Snoop Dogg playing an inauguration party for Donald Trump.

00:02:22.100 You've got Bill Gates sucking up to Trump, calling him an intriguing, fascinating man.

00:02:26.900 All of the corporate executives, the big tech, of course, Mark Zuckerberg, and then, of course, the foreign dignitaries coming into the imperial capital for a shift, not just in a political party, but also, I think, a global shift toward the right.

00:02:43.840 That's what we're seeing.

00:02:44.840 There's also what we're not seeing that I think is really interesting, to your point about the libs being over, is, you know, we've been here in D.C. for a few days now.

00:02:52.520 I'm told there was another Women's March protest.

00:02:54.880 I saw no...

00:02:55.880 A People's March.

00:02:56.740 A People's March now.

00:02:57.700 I saw no indication of it.

00:02:59.160 So what we're not seeing is what I think a lot of us expected, which was this, like, explosive nuclear outrage from the left, this huge meltdown.

00:03:06.860 And instead, you get, you know, maybe a few thousand people walking around.

00:03:11.280 And so it seems like on the left there's this kind of resignation to the fact that Trump is here.

00:03:16.480 And I think he's just, he's a normal part of the political landscape now.

00:03:20.120 So leftists are having a problem casting him as this sort of abnormal aberration, this dangerous figure.

00:03:26.640 And so even on the left, there seems to be kind of this resignation, this shrug of, well, this is how it is now.

00:03:32.040 Well, I want to give a big thank you to Joe Biden.

00:03:34.880 Really thank you to Joe Biden.

00:03:36.040 Because this last four years has been total shit.

00:03:37.860 But, you know, aside from that, there would be no Trump, too, except for Joe Biden.

00:03:42.460 Joe Biden was a historically bad president.

00:03:44.020 He's going to go down in history as one of the worst presidents in the history of the United States.

00:03:47.340 In the modern history of the United States, it's a running gun battle between him and Jimmy Carter.

00:03:51.400 So we can easily say that he's now the worst living president of the United States.

00:03:55.140 And I think that without him, none of this would have been possible.

00:03:58.200 So we owe a big thank you to President Biden.

00:04:01.740 With that, and I'm glad that we'll never have to say that again because he's not going to be president again.

00:04:04.900 So that's going to be great.

00:04:05.460 But I think that there's really three things that I've been thinking about today.

00:04:08.380 One is the uniqueness of President Trump as a human and as a figure.

00:04:11.540 It's just unbelievable.

00:04:12.540 Like, you get used to this stuff covering it every day.

00:04:15.480 We cover it every day.

00:04:16.260 Trump, as you say, has become part of the normal political landscape.

00:04:18.560 And then you see the image of President Trump coming out of the White House and getting into the motorcade to go to take the inaugural oath at the Capitol building behind us.

00:04:25.440 And you think to yourself, man, this is unbelievable.

00:04:28.140 Like, the writing here is just insane.

00:04:31.080 You have a person who came from literally nowhere in politics, like had never held office, to become president of the United States.

00:04:36.620 He loses an election to Joe Biden in the most contentious election of our lifetime, without a doubt, between BLM riots and COVID and changing the rules and the insanity that followed.

00:04:46.180 And then he comes all the way back to the presidency of the United States as a singular figure.

00:04:50.480 There's nothing remotely like it in our lifetime.

00:04:52.780 And then you think about the American people.

00:04:54.280 And what the American people have said here is that they are tired of the fake normality provided by the Democratic Party.

00:05:01.280 We kept hearing all the – the pitch was always Donald Trump is not normal.

00:05:04.460 He's not a normal guy. He's super – this is not normal.

00:05:07.240 You kept hearing that during term one.

00:05:08.660 And then you got Joe Biden, who's supposedly the most normal guy.

00:05:11.320 He's so normal. He's like a normal politician who's super normal.

00:05:14.200 And it turns out everything he did was not normal. Everything.

00:05:17.300 His presidency was a sham because he wasn't even alive.

00:05:20.160 His executive orders vastly exceeded the scope of his office.

00:05:23.800 The policies that he pursued were disastrous for the United States, both at home and abroad.

00:05:27.360 But in his waning hours, he pardoned a bunch of people with blanket pardons that he couldn't – it's nothing – like nothing we've ever seen.

00:05:34.480 For crimes they are not accused of.

00:05:35.700 He tried to add a constitutional amendment 72 hours ago by presidential fiat.

00:05:40.840 And then they say that he's Captain Normalcy.

00:05:43.000 The American people say, you know what? We're tired of the illusion of normal.

00:05:45.820 We just want normal.

00:05:47.040 So President Trump is supposed to, in his speech today, talk about the power of common sense.

00:05:50.920 This is supposed to be the theme of his speech is it's going to be a common sense –

00:05:53.640 That's all we're asking for. That's all we're asking for.

00:05:56.620 Even, like, I'm a conservative. I wish you were more conservative.

00:05:59.040 He isn't. He's commonsensical and utilitarian.

00:06:01.620 And guess what? That's what the American people want.

00:06:03.740 They want common sense, utilitarian, pragmatist, winning first president.

00:06:07.900 The one thing we haven't mentioned here is us, the media.

00:06:11.700 The fact that the left-wing media that enforced all these illusions on the American people

00:06:16.420 threatened them essentially with any violation of their beliefs.

00:06:21.440 They've been particleized.

00:06:22.700 They're going through the seven stages of grief, which are whining, anger, denial, denial, denial, denial.

00:06:28.220 They just absolutely cannot get around the fact that they don't matter anymore.

00:06:31.940 And we do. And we do for a reason.

00:06:34.100 Not because we have the reporting power they have. We don't. Not yet.

00:06:38.100 But we do have the power to debunk the lies that they tell.

00:06:40.940 And we've done it bit by bit, piece by piece, skirmish by skirmish.

00:06:44.100 And we beat them. We beat them down to the ground.

00:06:46.340 Yeah. I wish you guys could see immediately behind us the angles of it, Steve.

00:06:50.480 But the presidential motorcade only just ending, a motorcade which began before we even went live.

00:06:55.420 Certainly the longest motorcade I've ever seen as President Trump is arriving at the Capitol.

00:07:00.140 And I believe from it's a little sunny out here.

00:07:02.860 We can't see everything as clearly as we'd like in the confidence monitors.

00:07:05.340 But I believe we also saw President Biden leaving the White House to make his journey over to the United States Capitol for the inauguration of Donald Trump.

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00:08:22.040 Michael, you're in many ways the most Trumpy of the Daily Wire hosts.

00:08:25.280 You're often accused of being sycophantish by me.

00:08:28.840 Yeah.

00:08:29.120 I do have to say, you've been the most bullish on President Trump's chances all the way back to 2020 that he would come back, that he would be elected president again.

00:08:41.900 It's a vindicating moment for you, I'm sorry to say, but happy for the country.

00:08:44.840 You make a great point.

00:08:45.740 I do seem very right and handsome and lively and exuberant.

00:08:51.000 I think there's a lot to what Ben just said.

00:08:53.540 This is a point I have been hammering since before the election, and I'm glad to see after the election,

00:08:58.660 which is, to me, the phrase of 2024 and the phrase of this administration has to be common sense.

00:09:06.700 Ben, when you say you wish Trump were more conservative, you're speaking in a political, ideological way.

00:09:12.060 Now, there is a kind of deep conservatism, even to the notion of common sense,

00:09:17.140 but there are a lot of people who voted for Trump, who did not ever vote before, or who had voted for Democrats,

00:09:22.140 who've never read Russell Kirk or Edmund Burke or Hayek or anybody,

00:09:25.580 who just kind of have a gut sense that something was wrong and Trump was kind of going to make it right

00:09:31.320 and paradoxically was going to be a normal president.

00:09:34.560 And I think that's good, actually.

00:09:36.220 I think it's to be encouraged.

00:09:37.620 We also want to apply reason to our political intuitions, but I'm all for that.

00:09:42.520 You know, I think back to the worst leftist revolutionaries ever.

00:09:46.860 One guy in particular, Antonio Gramsci, who observed that a revolution can only succeed if it holds the common sense,

00:09:53.940 and the left totally kissed that away.

00:09:56.520 And if Trump can make his remarks today and the theme of his admin, that we're going to be normal.

00:10:01.700 It's okay to be normal, guys.

00:10:03.200 We're going to use common sense.

00:10:04.560 We're going to defer to the wisdom of our ancestors and the things that have just kind of worked out before.

00:10:09.660 If he can do that, he is going to hold not only the center-right, he's going to hold the center, the center-left.

00:10:14.920 I think he could even expand that new coalition.

00:10:16.900 You saw the executive orders.

00:10:18.100 I mean, he's supposed to issue some 200 executive orders today.

00:10:20.700 Now, listen, as a fan of constitutional government, not a fan of that many executive orders.

00:10:23.860 But that is a perfect response to what the Democrats have done in centralizing executive power since the Obama days.

00:10:29.080 It was Barack Obama who, after he lost Congress, said he would rule by pen and phone.

00:10:32.020 And then it was Donald Trump who tried to reverse many of those things.

00:10:34.540 And then it was Joe Biden who expanded it radically.

00:10:36.900 Joe Biden issued more executive orders while he was president than any president of our lifetime for his four years.

00:10:41.400 And now Donald Trump has to reverse all that stuff.

00:10:43.680 And so his executive orders right now are very commonsensical things.

00:10:46.500 It's put Remain in Mexico back in place.

00:10:49.140 From now on, men pretending to be women are not going to be treated as women.

00:10:52.880 They're going to be treated as men.

00:10:53.660 This is literally one of the—

00:10:54.560 It's amazing that that has to be an executive order.

00:10:56.340 That phraseology is the exact phraseology of the executive order.

00:10:58.960 It says men pretending to be women.

00:11:00.380 That's his exact phraseology.

00:11:01.700 That is a wild difference from the kind of pseudo-respect that's been granted to the stupid proposition for the last several years that Matt, of course, has been fighting against so prominently.

00:11:09.860 You know, the fact that these sorts of things were up for debate and the fact that these are quick and easy wins for Trump.

00:11:15.400 Now, the thing—you know, if I want to speak pragmatically about Trump for a second, the thing that—the big risk, I think, for Trump is that President Trump wants wins, right?

00:11:23.160 He likes headlines and he likes wins.

00:11:24.440 The one cautionary note is don't go for the quick and easy win over the long-lasting systemic change because I think that there are going to be a lot of shiny objects where you can grab the win right in the moment.

00:11:36.900 But the big thing that he was elected to do was, for example, clean out the deadwood of government.

00:11:40.660 It's not just to issue an executive order and declare the thing over.

00:11:42.940 I think that President Trump knows that.

00:11:44.280 I think his cabinet knows that.

00:11:45.580 But I think that's also going to require the support of the American people who understand things take time.

00:11:49.360 He also has a majority in both houses of Congress and ostensibly a majority on the Supreme Court.

00:11:55.240 They should be able to come back behind these executive orders and codify a lot of them in actual law.

00:12:00.520 And if they don't do that, I'm worried that Congress has actually become a vestigial organ that is incapable of passing legislation.

00:12:07.320 He's also shown that he's learned something.

00:12:09.080 I mean, he staffed his administration this time.

00:12:11.480 He didn't staff it at all last time and essentially allowed the Republican Party to staff it with people who hated him.

00:12:16.340 And now he's got people who love him, and I think that that's an important thing.

00:12:19.400 They keep saying he appoints loyalists.

00:12:21.620 I think, what are you going to do, appoint enemies of course?

00:12:24.020 You want guys in your administration who are going to do what you tell them to do.

00:12:27.400 And he sent a lot of sticks of dynamite into these departments, which is exactly what they need, especially in the legal departments, especially the FBI, the DOJ.

00:12:35.040 It has to be cleaned out.

00:12:36.040 This reign of terror, and it has been a reign of terror.

00:12:38.960 I mean, let's face it.

00:12:39.700 You know, it's one thing for the media that is protected by the First Amendment.

00:12:42.560 But people were being raided in their homes for protesting abortion, punished for going to the Latin mass.

00:12:47.720 I mean, if it were only Knowles, I would say fine.

00:12:49.700 But, you know, other people—

00:12:50.740 You would enforce it yourself, actually.

00:12:51.920 I would endorse it.

00:12:52.240 I would actually go in and investigate you myself.

00:12:54.200 But, no, this is an amazing—has been an amazingly oppressive regime.

00:12:58.780 And the idea that Trump is abnormal for opposing it and the people who support Trump are abnormal for opposing it is anti-American.

00:13:04.980 This is the most interesting thing about these—about the last 20 years of American government, is that Barack Obama and Joe Biden both present as moderate, which obscures their radicalism.

00:13:16.280 Yeah.

00:13:16.400 They're two of the most radical men ever to hold the office of the president of the United States.

00:13:20.240 Donald Trump, on the other hand, presents as a radical.

00:13:22.940 Yeah.

00:13:23.460 But it's pretty moderate.

00:13:24.160 And yet he's pretty moderate.

00:13:25.360 Because it takes a crazy—and this is the thing I've been saying about him from the beginning.

00:13:29.320 It took a crazy man to break this glass, to break this incredible shield of dreams that's been put over the American public where they couldn't see what was happening.

00:13:37.800 And there's also—we're talking about the political side of it.

00:13:40.040 I mean, in the culture, there's a real massive shift that's happening right now.

00:13:43.900 And it feels—it's probably not as sudden as it feels, but it feels very sudden.

00:13:47.740 And so, for example, that executive order with that language on the trans issue is really significant.

00:13:52.380 And there's also—I mean, the Daily Wire just reported today the latest poll—I think it was the New York Times—on the trans issue.

00:13:58.200 It's something like 80 percent now, a majority of both Democrats and Republicans saying things like,

00:14:03.320 we don't want men and women's sports and that sort of thing, a majority against, you know, transing the kids.

00:14:08.740 And if you go back and look at the polls five years ago, it wasn't like that.

00:14:11.960 By the way, I will say our company should take credit for this.

00:14:13.800 Okay?

00:14:14.360 Like, really.

00:14:15.160 Joe, Donald Trump, in 2016, when he was running, said Caitlyn Jenner could use the women's restrooms.

00:14:20.880 He did.

00:14:21.180 I mean, and the reality is that it was the outside voices in the conservative movement that held the line on this.

00:14:26.320 And we were leading the charge on this, everything from Matt doing his unbelievable work on this issue to the rest of us covering this stuff.

00:14:32.140 I mean, I remember being threatened on national TV by Zoe Torrin in 2014, right?

00:14:36.140 I mean, so, like, we've been fighting this battle for a very, very long time.

00:14:38.900 It creates a problem for the—here's the problem the left has right now.

00:14:41.420 I think they have a few problems.

00:14:42.700 One is that they run on emotions, and emotions can't be sustained forever.

00:14:45.460 And so there's—I think people are just sort of exhausted.

00:14:48.860 But then the other thing, too, is what are they about?

00:14:51.420 Like, what is the Democrat Party about right now?

00:14:53.420 What's their agenda?

00:14:54.520 What's their project?

00:14:55.840 The good thing about Trump is he's always been able to speak very clearly and simply about what he wants to do, build the wall, you know, secure the border.

00:15:01.280 These are simple things.

00:15:02.480 Right now, I think you look at the Democrat Party, you were to get 100 Democrats in a room and say, what is your party about?

00:15:07.800 What do you guys stand for?

00:15:08.880 I think you'd get 90 different answers.

00:15:10.840 Well, that's why I think they're freaking out right now, because what they were about was being against Trump.

00:15:15.460 Yeah.

00:15:15.720 Okay?

00:15:15.980 That's really what they were about.

00:15:16.920 I mean, since Trump won, every single waking moment for the Democrats has been, we oppose Donald Trump and everything he stands for,

00:15:22.520 and we're going to blame his victory on the Russians or on Facebook or on some sort of corruption.

00:15:26.520 And then it turns out the American people threw up a giant orange middle finger a second time and said no to that.

00:15:32.120 So what exactly do you do when your entire case is we just don't like the guy the American people selected?

00:15:36.680 There's nothing left.

00:15:37.620 Who is their leader?

00:15:38.480 You know, I like that Trump has changed the Republican Party, but even if Republicans hate Trump, at least it's clear who runs the Republican Party.

00:15:46.600 It's Donald Trump.

00:15:48.160 Previously, three months ago, you would say, well, probably Barack Obama runs the Democrat Party.

00:15:53.260 I think he's basically out.

00:15:54.920 Joe Biden certainly isn't running anything.

00:15:56.620 He's probably not running his toothbrush in his mouth.

00:15:58.740 Kamala Harris isn't.

00:16:00.000 So who is the figure?

00:16:01.140 Who's the figure in media?

00:16:02.480 Who's the figure?

00:16:03.160 They just, they don't have one.

00:16:04.640 So they're obviously confused, which is why I'm so excited about the executive actions today.

00:16:09.960 Fifty expected executive orders and then additional executive actions once he's sworn in.

00:16:14.560 The thing I love most about it is not just what it's going to do to the border, not just he's inviting certain legal challenges, potentially on birthright citizenship, not just the gender stuff.

00:16:24.400 It's that he is going in, guns a-blazing.

00:16:28.380 He is organized.

00:16:29.520 To your point, Drew, he just outsourced hiring to the GOP in 2016.

00:16:35.360 But one of the big problems was he couldn't get people to work for him because the brand had been made so toxic by the dishonest media.

00:16:43.280 That's a huge shift now, too.

00:16:45.120 The fact that Bill Gates is saying, wow, what a fascinating guy.

00:16:48.400 Oh, how intriguing.

00:16:49.300 We're going to work together.

00:16:50.520 If Bill Gates is going to work, if Mark Zuckerberg is going to work for Trump, then everybody is going to work with him.

00:16:55.800 And so he's going to be able to staff really, really good people.

00:16:58.000 We're approximately 12 and a half minutes out from the beginning of the inaugural ceremony inside the Capitol Rotunda.

00:17:03.320 You're starting to see a lot of familiar faces.

00:17:04.900 I see Charlie Kirk in the room right now, several prominent lawmakers.

00:17:09.280 Vivek, Elon Musk already have walked through a pretty remarkable moment in that this is taking place inside the Rotunda of the Capitol.

00:17:19.540 Normally, you would see it happening directly behind us on the National Mall, on the steps of the Capitol.

00:17:24.400 That's where these events are typically held.

00:17:26.100 It's obviously why we selected this location.

00:17:28.800 But there have been enormous changes and frequent changes and rumors of even more changes over the last 48 hours as the government has responded both to the incredibly cold weather here in Washington, D.C.

00:17:38.980 And we are told security threats against the president.

00:17:42.580 I've given some thought to it.

00:17:44.560 My guess is that the kind of drone warfare that we've seen taking place, like the individualized drone warfare we've seen taking place in Eastern Europe probably presents challenges that we just don't know how to keep an event like this safe in the way that historically we've been able to.

00:17:57.080 Whatever the case, it's only the second time in our lifetimes that a president has been sworn in in the Rotunda of the Capitol, the last being the re-election of Ronald Reagan in 84.

00:18:07.120 Going back to sort of the topic of the opening of culture to President Trump, I think that the most seminal moment in modern political history was that debate with Joe Biden.

00:18:17.640 And the reason I think that is because for the first time, a bunch of Americans actually said the thing out loud, which was maybe it's okay to support the Republican.

00:18:28.640 You started to see people say, you know, maybe it's actually okay.

00:18:31.420 Like he's so bad that maybe we should actually consider this.

00:18:34.080 And then the attempted assassination of Trump, when you saw people suddenly come out of the woodwork, Mark Zuckerberg saying, that was pretty awesome how Trump responded to that.

00:18:40.520 Suddenly there was a cultural pane of glass that had been broken, and you can't unbreak the glass.

00:18:44.440 Once you say the guy might be cool, he might be doing something important and useful and amazing, once you say that, you can't unsay it, right?

00:18:51.280 If you put somebody in the untouchable box, once they're out of the untouchable box, you can't stuff them back in.

00:18:56.660 And I think that that was one of the big problems that Kamala had.

00:18:58.900 She kept trying to stuff Trump back in the box that had already been destroyed by the debate with Biden.

00:19:04.520 And so Joe Biden did more damage to the Democratic brand in the last year.

00:19:08.660 Like, listen, I think Kamala Harris would have lost him anyway because she's a uniquely terrible candidate.

00:19:12.220 And that goes back to, you know, the sort of modern media sensibility that you're talking about, Drew, which is without the podcast, without the videos, without the ability to expose people in long form, the media would have been able to cram her down our throats.

00:19:24.340 20 years ago, she's the president of the United States because the media is able to hide her behind glass and then just pretend away all of her problems.

00:19:31.420 In this election cycle, you've got long form interviews with her that don't exist.

00:19:35.240 And then you have long form interviews with Trump or J.D. who are acting like normal humans.

00:19:38.760 And that's a completely different thing.

00:19:40.300 So the cultural willingness to now say the thing, Joe Biden is responsible for that.

00:19:44.660 So once again, I want to thank the outgoing president of the United States, who's awful, who's awful and deserves all the ignominy.

00:19:51.040 We can we can we can ladle upon him for the rest of his life.

00:19:54.840 You know, we should talk a little bit more about that assassination attempt, because I keep going back to this moment when Trump had covid and he came back and he said, don't be afraid of it.

00:20:03.420 Don't let it dominate your life. And Jake Tapper went on and said, no, you know, it's right to be afraid.

00:20:07.480 It does dominate your life. You should be afraid. And I thought that's what they're selling us.

00:20:11.340 And when you saw Trump stand up after being shot and say, fight, fight, fight, I think a lot of Americans may have said, oh, yeah.

00:20:17.520 Oh, yeah. That's who we're supposed to be. Well, I mean, also, I think just we're all religious people at the table.

00:20:22.360 Yeah. If you saw that and you didn't see the hand of God almost literally come down and grab Donald Trump by the head and move his head this much.

00:20:31.460 A priest for not have his head blown completely off on national TV.

00:20:35.280 Like if that at that moment, your confidence didn't skyrocket that this dude was going to be president of the United States again.

00:20:39.760 Yeah. I got to say only not only secular people probably saw that were like, well, he probably just has there's a great shot of not winning.

00:20:45.280 A priest friend of mine says it's a wicked generation that seeks after signs and wonders, but it's a stupid generation that ignores signs.

00:20:53.160 When Mark Zuckerberg wakes up the next day and says, I think he's going to be president.

00:20:59.100 No, that was because he repealed Rory away. That was I'm I'm absolutely convinced you're going all the way.

00:21:05.160 I think that was absolutely. All right. Second chance.

00:21:07.280 I mean, speaking of second chances, I will say that it is rare.

00:21:12.020 And I think this is this is the rare moment.

00:21:13.760 And this is why, you know, I think that we should approach this with a lot of excitement and encouragement, but also some trepidation, because God doesn't give countries second chances.

00:21:21.000 Oh, that's right. And this is a second chance for the country.

00:21:24.140 If you had told me four years ago that Donald Trump would reenter office with a Republican majority in the House, in the Senate and with sometimes six votes on the Supreme Court, I would have said you're out of your mind.

00:21:33.520 That's crazy what you're saying to me right now, given the sort of political situation in the United States four years ago.

00:21:39.020 And the fact that God has given this opportunity, the American people have taken the opportunity to do this.

00:21:43.400 It means that you can't blow the opportunity.

00:21:45.540 You cannot. You cannot.

00:21:46.620 You cannot be distracted by the dumb kind of stuff that that that sometimes we get distracted by and political like the meme coins and the tick tock.

00:21:54.540 So just get do the thing.

00:21:56.420 Do the thing.

00:21:57.000 That's the opportunity.

00:21:58.240 Grab the thing.

00:21:59.260 Do the thing.

00:21:59.960 And the American people are going to be grateful for it.

00:22:01.540 All they want is some sense of solidity in an ever more chaotic world.

00:22:04.920 And God giving us the second chance, like if it's not seized, I don't think God takes kindly to people who don't take their second chance.

00:22:10.400 I think also on the right, we have this responsibility to keep our fringes out of the out of the center of the Jew haters and the women haters and the black haters.

00:22:18.900 I think we just got to say no.

00:22:20.160 I know that there's going to be moments when they get the clicks, when they get the attention.

00:22:23.960 We've got to just turn our backs on them because our party has always been the party of liberty and justice for all.

00:22:30.120 It should remain that way.

00:22:31.040 We don't need to hate anybody.

00:22:32.060 We can actually do everything we need to do without letting those people in.

00:22:35.240 And something that's very encouraging is for every, you know, if people spend too much time on Twitter, one will think that the country is in a rather bad place.

00:22:43.540 Good point.

00:22:43.920 But, you know, you look at Trump himself.

00:22:47.060 He does not really entertain fringes, hateful people, anything like that.

00:22:51.500 Trump, as we've been saying now for 20 minutes, Trump really has grabbed the normal.

00:22:57.840 He's kind of like the normie president.

00:22:59.500 I actually think this is a terrible – the ascension of Donald Trump is a terrible defeat for the sort of pseudo-fascist voices on the far right, the anti-Semitic and racist voices on the far right.

00:23:10.560 They've had a lot of prominence online in the last four years because opposition fuels things like that.

00:23:15.640 And in fairness, when you see the left ascendant, it creates this reaction, and it creates support for a reaction.

00:23:21.340 Especially when they're silencing people.

00:23:22.840 That's right.

00:23:23.440 But it's very hard to have a far-right extremist protest against an ascendant and productive and effective right-wing government.

00:23:31.400 Back in the rotunda right now, it looks like people are starting to take their seats.

00:23:35.140 We see Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:23:36.880 I saw Apple CEO Tim Cook, it looks like, has taken a seat as we're about six minutes away from the beginning of the inauguration of Donald Trump.

00:23:45.740 They'll run late.

00:23:47.020 My prediction.

00:23:47.880 This thing ain't starting in six minutes.

00:23:49.500 No way.

00:23:50.500 Listen, I spent good money on this countdown clock that's playing.

00:23:53.400 I expect a timely inauguration.

00:23:56.280 And I have to say, this green screen of the Capitol looks really realistic.

00:23:58.840 It's beautiful.

00:23:59.320 And this green screen is also freezing cold.

00:24:01.420 It's amazing.

00:24:02.140 Wow.

00:24:02.700 One of the things that is amazing is, like, we are literally counting down the moments until Joe Biden leaves.

00:24:07.060 I can't get over how bad a president he was.

00:24:09.000 Yes.

00:24:09.500 Did you like Joe Biden?

00:24:11.420 But really, it's an amazing thing to have lived through a historically bad president.

00:24:15.240 Like, a truly historically bad presidency.

00:24:16.740 Two of them.

00:24:17.320 Barack Obama was truly historically bad, but in a different and more insidious way.

00:24:21.040 On purpose.

00:24:21.620 On purpose, right.

00:24:22.340 I mean, there were rumors yesterday.

00:24:25.500 That leading up to this inauguration, Joe Biden was at the very last minute going to cram through a series of U.N. resolutions targeting Israel.

00:24:33.080 This was literal.

00:24:33.620 This was the rumor.

00:24:34.200 There was a security council meeting that was happening this morning, and that was the going rumor.

00:24:37.540 And it was like, that might happen.

00:24:39.340 That's plausible.

00:24:39.820 Right?

00:24:39.960 I mean, that's plausible.

00:24:40.720 He tried to actually add a constitutional amendment by Fiat.

00:24:46.500 I love that.

00:24:47.100 On Twitter in a statement he clearly did not write.

00:24:49.980 I love that, though.

00:24:51.080 Do you know why I love that?

00:24:52.000 The reason I loved him trying to ram through the ERA, which had a deadline of, what, 1977?

00:24:58.700 Then it was like 1982.

00:25:00.020 I mean, they blew past it 40 years ago.

00:25:02.320 And so the-

00:25:02.960 It was 1979.

00:25:03.660 It was more recent than that.

00:25:04.480 It was more recent.

00:25:05.180 Yeah.

00:25:05.460 And they did extend it till 82, but they didn't extend it till 2022.

00:25:09.340 So when the archivist of the United States said, hey, you can't just declare constitutional amendments into existence, Biden kept moving anyway.

00:25:18.740 But it wasn't just Biden.

00:25:19.620 It was Kamala Harris.

00:25:20.800 It was Tammy Duckworth.

00:25:21.900 You could tell it was an organized Democrat strategy to just-

00:25:25.420 Hillary Clinton.

00:25:25.860 Hillary Clinton.

00:25:26.500 Deny till you die.

00:25:27.620 You know, just say that this is the case.

00:25:29.500 Why were they doing it?

00:25:31.040 Yeah.

00:25:31.200 Because they had nothing else that actually happened to point to as an accomplishment.

00:25:35.900 That's why.

00:25:36.600 And they still think the media exists to cover it up for him.

00:25:38.740 I think they also-

00:25:39.820 They have to reanimate.

00:25:41.100 Their going argument since 2012 has been the war on women, right?

00:25:43.840 I mean, that was the animating argument in 2012 against Romney.

00:25:46.580 And it was an idiotic argument in the first place.

00:25:48.620 But this has been their animating argument.

00:25:50.460 They tried it with the trans issue.

00:25:51.560 They tried to pretend that somehow the trans issue was a war on women when, in fact, it was a defense of women.

00:25:56.120 And then after the repeal of Roe versus Wade, they decided that the overturning, they decided that that was going to be like the big winner issue for them.

00:26:03.760 And it turns out the American people kind of normalized on that, meaning that if you're in California, you realize California made your abortion policy.

00:26:09.260 And if you're in Florida, then you realize Florida made your abortion policy.

00:26:12.220 And I think Trump, again, this is one of those areas where being a conservative is different than being a pragmatic politician.

00:26:17.320 I wish that he were more pro-life on a federal level.

00:26:19.380 And also, if you're a pragmatic politician, what he did by taking that off the table as an issue in the campaign was actually quite important.

00:26:24.620 So it's easy to forget to that point that it was, you know, eight months ago you had the kind of the idea, the popular wisdom was that because of Roe v. Wade, that in fact conservatives would be in the position that the left is in right now.

00:26:38.620 Total disarray, relegated to irrelevance.

00:26:41.320 And that was an argument not just among liberals, but there are many people on the right who were panicking over the fact that Roe v. Wade had been passed and saw it as a net negative.

00:26:51.580 And look how that turned out.

00:26:52.660 I agree. And so I think that because of that, because they blew through the trans issue, that's gone.

00:26:57.240 The abortion issue is normalizing.

00:26:58.920 So they have, but the only constituency that Democrats do really, really well with now is young single women.

00:27:04.440 That is the only constituency that they have.

00:27:05.960 But don't forget, Trump won.

00:27:06.720 Try the ERA. Why the hell not, right?

00:27:08.200 I mean, like.

00:27:08.740 Donald Trump won 40% of women under the age of 30, according to the Associated Press.

00:27:13.360 So even the most pro-Democrat group.

00:27:16.780 Ah, but I said young single women, right?

00:27:18.180 Okay, so the reality is a percentage of people under 30 are married.

00:27:21.520 That's true.

00:27:22.280 Even in our day and age, there are still a number of married people.

00:27:25.100 That's true.

00:27:25.600 That's a good point.

00:27:25.980 So, you know, I think that as Democrats double down on that, the big question for them is what's going to be the next consolidating issue?

00:27:31.560 And we haven't seen it yet.

00:27:32.760 This is why, again, one of my fears is, and I think the most important thing is continued economic boom.

00:27:39.160 That is the most important thing, because the only thing Democrats can consolidate around is some sort of economic downturn.

00:27:44.220 They can't consolidate around social policy, they lose.

00:27:46.340 They can't consolidate around foreign policy, because their foreign policy is a complete mess, and they don't even know what they believe.

00:27:50.760 So the only thing that they can consolidate around is if there were to be some sort of economic downturn.

00:27:55.740 We're seeing the arrival of vice presidents into the rotunda.

00:27:58.420 Vice President Pence walking in right now.

00:28:02.880 It may have been Dan Quill who walked in right now.

00:28:03.960 It was Dan Quill, yeah.

00:28:04.640 Vice President Dan Quill walked in right before him.

00:28:08.340 So Ben's prediction that this would not begin promptly.

00:28:13.400 So far, there's still a chance.

00:28:15.420 A minute 37?

00:28:16.680 Yeah, we have a minute 30.

00:28:17.440 They've only got to get in a handful.

00:28:18.740 I mean, they're not going to wheel out Carter anymore.

00:28:20.760 They are going to wheel out Biden, though.

00:28:25.480 He finally can not do anything wrong.

00:28:29.020 There we go.

00:28:29.540 Wow.

00:28:30.140 Oh, no.

00:28:30.660 There we go, Bubba.

00:28:31.940 And there's the least happy person in all of America, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

00:28:36.020 The one President Clinton.

00:28:37.480 The one and only President Clinton.

00:28:40.400 President and her husband.

00:28:41.840 Can you imagine just how terrible it is to be Hillary Rodham Clinton?

00:28:44.560 Like, you're the person who ushered Donald Trump into power, and then you lost to him.

00:28:49.660 And then Joe Biden, who you really don't like, won in 2020, and then he lost to him.

00:28:54.380 That's right.

00:28:54.540 And you this entire time have gotten to just be whiny.

00:28:57.900 Like, that's been your entire career has just been whining.

00:29:00.220 By the way, do you know that if Joe Biden had remained on the ticket, Barack Obama would

00:29:04.860 still have a lot more political power than he does.

00:29:07.840 Yeah, yeah.

00:29:08.180 He played such an enormous card, only to be defeated.

00:29:11.680 I agree with Biden that he would have done better than Kamala, even after the debate,

00:29:16.480 even with the dementia.

00:29:17.260 I do, too.

00:29:18.180 You do?

00:29:18.500 I don't think he would have won, but I think he would have done better than Kamala.

00:29:21.800 It's hard to do worse than she did.

00:29:24.780 You know, I think that it's hard for me to say that he would have done better.

00:29:27.940 I think that because he was so senile, he was so gone.

00:29:30.760 And President and Laura Bush walking into the rotunda now, President Bush had the best

00:29:36.560 line of the first Donald Trump inauguration, which, if you'll recall, as soon as Donald

00:29:41.820 Trump began reading Steve Bannon's speech, God opened the heavens and poured down tears

00:29:46.120 from the sky, at which point, apparently, George W. Bush leaned over to whomever was sitting

00:29:52.000 next to him and said, that was some pretty weird s**t.

00:29:54.160 I like, my favorite George W. Bush moment recently was at the funeral of Jimmy Carter,

00:30:03.600 where he came out and slapped Obama in the stomach.

00:30:06.000 I just thought, I missed that guy.

00:30:07.700 I'm sorry.

00:30:08.880 I mean, I have to say that Republican presidents tend to be normies.

00:30:13.920 Yes.

00:30:14.400 W. was a normie.

00:30:15.340 He was a normie.

00:30:15.760 And the thing about Trump is that, yeah, he's weird on social media, but we all know

00:30:19.060 Donald Trump.

00:30:19.520 He's the guy at the end of the bar.

00:30:20.540 Correct.

00:30:20.900 We all know him.

00:30:21.540 No one has ever met Kamala Harris.

00:30:22.540 No one doesn't drink.

00:30:22.880 No one has ever met Kamala Harris because she's animatronic.

00:30:26.200 And there's Barack, and Michelle is not there.

00:30:28.360 Wow.

00:30:28.800 That is President Obama without Michelle.

00:30:31.820 That is so weird.

00:30:32.580 Or Jennifer Aniston.

00:30:34.200 They're having those rumors.

00:30:35.380 Notably.

00:30:35.760 I wasn't going to say it.

00:30:37.280 That is actually weird.

00:30:39.200 Which is shocking, because the other rumor was worse than it.

00:30:41.360 Yeah.

00:30:42.040 She didn't seem like his type.

00:30:43.960 Let's put it that way.

00:30:45.640 But, you know, when I saw Michelle wasn't going to come, I said, okay, well, it happens.

00:30:49.980 She didn't go to Carter's funeral.

00:30:51.060 But that was really weird to see him walk down alone.

00:30:55.020 Yes.

00:30:55.220 Yeah.

00:30:55.580 And it was really weird that she wasn't at Carter's funeral.

00:30:58.120 Yeah.

00:30:58.800 Truly.

00:30:59.620 No, she signed out.

00:31:00.600 She checked out.

00:31:00.960 She's had it.

00:31:01.540 Yeah.

00:31:01.760 She's like, I'm done.

00:31:02.780 I don't like any of these people.

00:31:03.840 I'm done.

00:31:04.300 Yeah.

00:31:04.480 You know, more power to her.

00:31:05.580 Yeah.

00:31:05.920 She signed out.

00:31:06.820 But the question is, of what has she signed out?

00:31:09.060 Yeah.

00:31:09.240 And now we're awaiting the arrival of our current president for only a few moments longer, Joe Biden.

00:31:15.940 Might take a while.

00:31:17.000 Yeah.

00:31:18.680 Oh, well, here come the Supreme Court.

00:31:20.040 Oh, the Supreme Court.

00:31:21.580 Okay.

00:31:21.960 Chief Justice Roberts.

00:31:23.100 Boo.

00:31:25.760 Kavanaugh.

00:31:26.380 Eh.

00:31:26.800 Eh.

00:31:27.820 Alito.

00:31:28.500 Yay.

00:31:29.300 Yay.

00:31:29.980 Yay.

00:31:30.600 Hey, there's a client.

00:31:31.520 Thomas.

00:31:32.020 Thomas.

00:31:32.340 Thomas, yep.

00:31:33.400 Yeah.

00:31:36.340 Gorsuch.

00:31:36.620 So, you know, that's me.

00:31:37.220 Our Kagan.

00:31:38.780 Gorsuch, yeah.

00:31:39.600 Only a few more moments before we see Donald Trump enter the rotunda.

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00:32:03.420 We've just launched new technology, a new app, and it's probably the best place to catch this

00:32:08.120 content.

00:32:08.520 Now, that's never been true before, but we're really proud of this new technology that we've

00:32:11.620 rolled out.

00:32:13.520 It's kind of interesting to see these tech guys, Elon Musk and Cook from Apple.

00:32:18.660 You know, it's a new generation of barons, you know.

00:32:22.400 It's a new generation.

00:32:22.980 There's also something to, even when you mentioned that Tim Cook was there, I thought, well, it's

00:32:28.760 good, obviously he's not a conservative, but, you know, he has to be there because he's

00:32:32.660 a huge figure in American public life.

00:32:34.480 He runs one of the biggest companies in the history of the world.

00:32:36.920 And we sometimes forget it because we're so clean about our civics.

00:32:40.400 But, you know, the guys who run these big private institutions wield a huge amount of

00:32:44.300 political power, for better or worse.

00:32:45.600 Of course.

00:32:45.800 Well, and imagine they all kicked Donald Trump personally off of their platforms four years

00:32:51.020 ago.

00:32:51.360 And today he ascends to be the most powerful man on planet Earth.

00:32:55.140 I think you probably kissed the ring in that circuit.

00:32:57.240 Yeah.

00:32:57.900 Oh, maybe we overreacted just a little bit, Mr. President.

00:33:01.760 But, I mean, you know, business is good, right?

00:33:03.520 Business is good for America.

00:33:04.580 These guys have built some of the most beautiful businesses in the world.

00:33:07.460 And, you know, it's great they're coming around.

00:33:09.500 The businesses that they've built have great power to do good.

00:33:11.940 Yeah.

00:33:12.180 And what I want from them is some acknowledgement that what they are doing now is a permanent

00:33:17.180 shift in the wind.

00:33:18.260 And it's done to shift back two years from now.

00:33:19.480 You do that to be impossible all the time.

00:33:21.020 That's not what I mean.

00:33:21.540 No, I think, honestly, I think one of the ways that they do that is actually doing public

00:33:24.720 appearances with people on the right.

00:33:25.980 Oh, all right.

00:33:26.520 They refuse to actually, like, get in public.

00:33:28.580 And they're not doing that anymore.

00:33:29.680 That's changing.

00:33:30.900 Here's the Trump family.

00:33:31.660 Here's the Trump family.

00:33:32.520 All right.

00:33:33.120 Ivanka and Don Jr.

00:33:36.580 And Tiffany and Eric.

00:33:37.720 And Barron, who is enormous.

00:33:39.200 He's tall, yeah.

00:33:40.960 Octavian.

00:33:41.500 No, Jared Kushner.

00:33:43.700 Yeah, he's probably home with the kids.

00:33:45.260 I didn't see any of the spouses.

00:33:46.540 Oh, yeah.

00:33:47.020 There were no spouses there.

00:33:47.920 Right.

00:33:48.580 I think you're right.

00:33:52.140 I'm very excited for Barron to change his name officially to Augustus.

00:33:56.900 I think that will happen.

00:33:58.880 Is that 28?

00:33:59.960 Does that happen?

00:34:00.460 I don't know.

00:34:00.880 The funniest thing that's happened so far was the exiling of Kimberly Guilfoyle to

00:34:04.880 Greece.

00:34:05.720 That is by far the funniest thing.

00:34:07.360 I'm sorry.

00:34:07.880 It's funny.

00:34:08.260 Like, you break up with the president's son, and then they're like, and you shall be delegated

00:34:12.580 to all.

00:34:13.540 You'll now have that.

00:34:15.480 If I could get Court of St. James, I might be willing to go.

00:34:19.480 I'm a married man.

00:34:20.740 Court of St. James.

00:34:21.920 That's the best one, you know.

00:34:23.260 What are you talking about?

00:34:24.860 It used to be when England was England.

00:34:26.620 That's right.

00:34:27.200 Now I'm not sure you want to go on that.

00:34:27.900 Now it's like the ambassador to God.

00:34:29.040 Mega.

00:34:29.100 Mega.

00:34:29.180 Make Europe great again.

00:34:30.440 Or just start by making England great again.

00:34:31.940 That could really happen.

00:34:33.000 And this right-wing movement across the West is so encouraging.

00:34:35.880 Our colleague, Dr. Jordan Peterson, plans to devote much of the next four years to that

00:34:39.940 particular fight.

00:34:40.660 Really?

00:34:41.100 Yes.

00:34:41.560 He thinks there's a real opportunity in Europe.

00:34:43.480 I spent some of last night.

00:34:44.580 I saw Liz Truss was in town, former UK prime minister.

00:34:47.800 Nigel Farage is in town.

00:34:48.940 I haven't seen him yet, but he's been going around to some of the parties.

00:34:51.380 So you do have, Georgia Maloney is in town.

00:34:53.820 I don't know how your Mille was here.

00:34:55.020 Mille showed up.

00:34:56.140 That's good.

00:34:56.580 My boy.

00:34:57.320 Yeah.

00:34:57.600 I love his Mille.

00:34:58.360 He's doing great.

00:34:59.980 He's doing fantastic.

00:35:00.620 It's unbelievable what he's doing.

00:35:01.980 What he's doing is insane.

00:35:03.420 He actually has them in the black.

00:35:05.160 It's crazy.

00:35:05.800 Now, what I want to know is, did my favorite Latin American strongman make it?

00:35:08.660 Nayib Bukele?

00:35:09.620 I believe he is coming.

00:35:11.340 All right.

00:35:11.920 Here we go.

00:35:12.400 I think Bukele is coming.

00:35:13.980 And my personal favorite Latin American strongman, Justin Trudeau.

00:35:17.780 Yeah.

00:35:20.940 Wow.

00:35:23.160 We really just teed it up and you just put it right there out of the bar.

00:35:26.480 That's great.

00:35:27.100 As my father taught me, never pass up a cheap job.

00:35:31.580 I actually was going to say, when he announced he was leaving politics, this would be the first

00:35:35.840 time since 1959 that Acastro didn't run a Western American nation.

00:35:39.440 That's not true.

00:35:40.360 The president of Honduras is Jomar Acastro.

00:35:42.700 Oh, there you go.

00:35:43.260 So we have one more to take down.

00:35:45.720 There is something unique happening across the world.

00:35:47.760 And you do see this kind of thing happen where very akin leaders across the world tend to

00:35:53.240 get elected at kind of the same time.

00:35:55.280 And I think that that's going to bode well for Europe.

00:35:57.880 I mean, the right-wing movements in France, in Spain, with the Vox Party, in France, the

00:36:02.020 national rally, in Germany, with both AFD in the center and the center of the Democratic

00:36:06.740 Union.

00:36:07.400 There is something happening.

00:36:09.160 And it is a revolt, a revolt of the people against the elitist nonsense that said you

00:36:14.060 can open up your borders endlessly and hand out cash like it's candy while becoming weaker

00:36:18.520 and weaker in the world.

00:36:19.540 That was Germany's third try.

00:36:20.880 They finally destroyed Europe, you know.

00:36:23.700 Two shots, man.

00:36:24.820 Then they figured this one out.

00:36:26.900 I give them Franco-Prussian.

00:36:28.700 I think they were, they teed us four times.

00:36:31.260 But even thinking, you know, that the Brexit preceded the Trump election so closely, you

00:36:37.660 know, Orban and Maloney.

00:36:39.360 But this goes back much further.

00:36:40.720 You think of Thatcher and Reagan coming up at the same time.

00:36:43.400 You know, this is, and why is that?

00:36:45.040 Because we are one civilization and America is the global hegemon.

00:36:49.020 So, you know, there's, that's obviously going to lead trends.

00:36:51.620 And I think that bodes very well for Europe.

00:36:53.040 I would like to see the phrase far-right banned from the newspapers.

00:36:56.960 Well, I would, I like the word far-right if you're actually referring to the far-right.

00:37:00.560 It really bothers me when you're just like, describe you or me.

00:37:05.480 We're all far-right.

00:37:06.460 We're like the dead center of the mainstream conservative.

00:37:08.420 I remember when you were the alt-right.

00:37:09.940 That was one of my favorite.

00:37:11.040 I was reading about the alternative for Deutschland, you know, the AfD party, and the lesbian libertarian

00:37:16.980 leader who thinks that Hitler was a communist.

00:37:19.120 She is a far-right leader, I mean.

00:37:21.080 Who knew?

00:37:21.360 First Lady Jill Biden walking into the road.

00:37:22.880 Dr. Jill Biden.

00:37:23.660 Oh, man, I thought I'd seen the last of Doug Emhoff.

00:37:25.620 And he's still there.

00:37:26.800 I apologize.

00:37:27.420 Dr.

00:37:27.720 Dr.

00:37:27.960 Jill.

00:37:28.360 Dr.

00:37:28.760 Doug Emhoff.

00:37:29.980 There he is.

00:37:30.560 There he is.

00:37:31.480 The worst Jew in America, Doug Emhoff.

00:37:33.800 Wait, he's Jewish?

00:37:34.520 I cannot stand that guy.

00:37:35.060 I cannot stand that guy.

00:37:36.200 I'm sorry to hear he's a Jew.

00:37:37.380 I didn't realize he was a Jew.

00:37:38.300 Yeah, exactly.

00:37:39.400 He's kept it a secret.

00:37:40.660 It's a big secret.

00:37:41.700 I mean, it was a secret until like the last five minutes when they needed him to be.

00:37:44.260 Yeah, yeah.

00:37:45.000 Oh, God.

00:37:45.520 Doug Emhoff.

00:37:45.600 They are running a fairly, I have to say, they started punctually.

00:37:48.680 Yeah.

00:37:49.120 Yeah.

00:37:49.520 Are you going to try and take credit for that clock?

00:37:51.460 That's it.

00:37:51.960 I'm just saying.

00:37:52.400 The clock is running.

00:37:53.520 I'm saying.

00:37:53.840 Running the government.

00:37:54.480 Well, no, but it began right on time.

00:37:56.220 Oh, you know, you're just shifting the definition.

00:37:57.720 No, no, no.

00:37:58.540 These are like announced entries.

00:38:00.040 There's a guy with a staff and he says, hear ye, hear ye, the right honorable Dr. Jill

00:38:05.640 Biden.

00:38:06.480 Speaking of Doug Emhoff.

00:38:07.220 Look how pissed off she looks, by the way.

00:38:08.240 Look how pissed off Jill Biden is.

00:38:09.540 Look how happy Emhoff is.

00:38:12.100 He's like, I'm out.

00:38:14.800 I'm out.

00:38:15.540 I was wondering if he were sad today, like when President Trump started speaking, what

00:38:21.160 do you think the odds are that he becomes so enraged that he just starts smacking all

00:38:24.820 the women all around?

00:38:27.060 Remember that time the entire media just ignored that story?

00:38:29.420 That was an amazing thing.

00:38:31.520 That was an amazing moment.

00:38:32.080 Will the Emhoff-Harris nuptials last per defeat?

00:38:37.360 Will they survive the defeat?

00:38:38.980 I mean, as long as they find each other mutually useful seems to be the rule in Democratic circles.

00:38:43.400 In Democrat circles.

00:38:44.340 That's exactly right.

00:38:45.220 Sometimes in Republican circles too, but mainly in political circles just generally.

00:38:48.320 Like the utility seems to outweigh the morality.

00:38:50.900 I think Jill legitimately likes Joe and I think she voted for Trump because she likes

00:38:56.160 Joe and hates Kamala.

00:38:57.900 Hates Kamala.

00:38:58.640 Will Kamala go run for something else?

00:39:00.520 Yes, governor of California.

00:39:02.320 No.

00:39:03.080 And she'll stand a reasonable chance because California doesn't learn anything from us.

00:39:07.440 California is iconic, which is why we all left California.

00:39:11.100 Literally all of us.

00:39:11.920 The greatest state in the country, and they have literally turned it into a dumpster fire.

00:39:16.420 Yes, because the weather is a drug.

00:39:17.940 People are happier.

00:39:18.240 You think Kamala still has a chance in the wake of even what's happening in California?

00:39:22.180 You don't think maybe there's a little bit of an awakening there?

00:39:23.800 Well, I'm hopeful that there could be an awakening.

00:39:26.080 If California can't wake up after the greatest man-made disaster in living memory, then nothing

00:39:32.400 will wake them up.

00:39:32.840 The problem is the Republicans tend to give up.

00:39:35.140 They've given up on New York, and they give up on California.

00:39:38.060 Republicans could win back California after this.

00:39:39.960 Ah, screw it.

00:39:40.600 Yeah.

00:39:42.560 I sure like it in Tennessee.

00:39:43.940 Yeah, exactly.

00:39:44.840 I'm not going back.

00:39:45.800 You're going back?

00:39:46.180 Yeah, yeah, no.

00:39:47.000 You can tell me why.

00:39:47.700 I haven't missed it for 10 minutes.

00:39:49.200 Stop with it.

00:39:49.780 Stop with it.

00:39:50.460 Servantizing.

00:39:51.040 These darn Republicans who give up from California.

00:39:53.860 All right, see you guys.

00:39:54.520 The big problem is that for the Republican Party to actually win there, they'd actually

00:40:01.240 have to run on the issues that matter, like running the state well and crime.

00:40:04.920 And they never did that.

00:40:05.720 They always were running on, like, education.

00:40:07.460 Right.

00:40:07.760 You're always going to outbid on education.

00:40:09.580 That's a giant fail.

00:40:10.900 Kamala Harris will run there, and I think that she stands a pretty good shot of winning

00:40:13.800 because, you know, right now it's a high watermark for kind of love for Trump.

00:40:17.760 There always is this honeymoon period.

00:40:19.020 Trump's actually getting one.

00:40:19.900 He didn't get one last time.

00:40:20.580 Yeah, he didn't get one last time.

00:40:20.960 This time he gets one.

00:40:21.800 That's right.

00:40:22.080 But six months from now, the left will have reconstituted in some form or fashion, and

00:40:26.700 Kamala, as running for governor of California, now that Newsom has completely blown it, could

00:40:32.280 be the person who says, listen, I ran against him.

00:40:34.280 I only lost because Joe Biden, and it, like, give me the shot again.

00:40:38.300 And the intersectionality, like, we all think DEI is dead.

00:40:40.740 DEI is dead for reasonable people.

00:40:42.020 For California, it's still very much a law.

00:40:43.380 Oh, sure.

00:40:43.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:44.320 And so, you know.

00:40:44.920 And Donald Trump should endorse her if she runs for governor.

00:40:48.020 He's so funny.

00:40:49.040 He's so funny.

00:40:50.080 You deserve it.

00:40:50.900 You deserve it.

00:40:52.080 Well, what happened to your clock?

00:40:54.640 They're trying to, well, they're trying to find Biden.

00:40:56.160 He's wandered off.

00:40:59.400 They were doing so well.

00:41:00.560 It is kind of disappointing.

00:41:01.800 I like to think that if we could hear maybe somebody saying a prayer or something, and

00:41:04.880 we'd be like, oh, yeah, well, that makes sense.

00:41:06.100 But I don't think so.

00:41:06.580 They're all talking to each other.

00:41:07.380 Yeah, it's probably just all falling apart on me.

00:41:09.760 All my plans in this way.

00:41:11.300 Baron is like Nikola Jokic.

00:41:13.360 Yeah.

00:41:13.560 He's, like, dominating everybody.

00:41:14.860 He's amazing.

00:41:15.420 Last night, I was talking to Gorka and Cal...

00:41:19.340 I'm sorry.

00:41:20.440 Gorka's a giant, too.

00:41:21.380 Calvin Robinson.

00:41:22.080 I felt like a munchkin.

00:41:23.380 Oh, I didn't even see Calvin.

00:41:24.420 Yes.

00:41:24.800 You know, he shaved off that afro.

00:41:26.780 I talked to him for 20 minutes.

00:41:28.060 It was when he walked away.

00:41:28.860 I went, oh, that's Calvin Robinson.

00:41:30.200 Our friends from The Blaze were at the parties last night.

00:41:32.380 We were at the TPUSA gala last night.

00:41:35.060 All five of us, I believe.

00:41:36.380 And Dr. Peterson.

00:41:37.820 And our buddies, Glenn Beck and Tyler Carden and Gaston Mooney, who are, like, giants.

00:41:43.520 Yeah.

00:41:43.900 They're all giants.

00:41:44.700 I know.

00:41:45.640 We need to carry around apple boxes when we're around these Nordic, you know...

00:41:49.440 Speak for yourself, guys.

00:41:50.460 Right.

00:41:51.140 And around Walsh.

00:41:52.040 The problem is that Matt's actually a small forward, but in our lineup, he's the center.

00:41:57.620 We're a very undersized team, right?

00:42:00.080 Yeah.

00:42:00.360 That's just what it is.

00:42:01.180 It's a Jewish basketball team.

00:42:04.400 You guys do make me feel very tall.

00:42:05.880 You're welcome.

00:42:07.600 You're welcome.

00:42:08.300 I did get home in time to watch your team get humiliated in what was essentially the Super

00:42:14.340 Bowl, because nobody can beat either of those teams.

00:42:16.040 We were at our fancy ball last night, and I was watching the game on the phone.

00:42:19.840 I was watching Matt get sadder and sadder as the night went on.

00:42:23.100 Our last moment was heartbreaking.

00:42:24.040 And it was pretty, you know...

00:42:26.240 I was watching Matt and watching his heart break, and we were in the loudest room.

00:42:29.460 It may be the history of...

00:42:30.360 Everyone's celebrating.

00:42:31.720 I'm dying.

00:42:31.820 And it's just Matt dying inside.

00:42:33.660 I was like, this is the closing moment of his movie, right?

00:42:36.240 Like, the camera just pans out, and it's Matt lonely in a crowd, all sad on the inside.

00:42:41.440 And I was like, at that moment, I realized that Matt had out-miserabled me, which I didn't

00:42:44.400 think was possible, because I hate giant parties.

00:42:46.700 Oh, my God.

00:42:46.900 Giant parties.

00:42:47.540 Like, you're the passion, man.

00:42:48.340 You must like...

00:42:49.020 You like giant parties.

00:42:49.520 You know, I get a kick out of them a lot, and I like seeing people, you know, who you

00:42:53.160 don't ordinarily see.

00:42:54.420 Yeah.

00:42:54.740 So I've been to about a billion political soirees.

00:42:57.300 Right.

00:42:57.620 What is really interesting about this spate of them, we've gone to however many, you know,

00:43:01.600 half a dozen or a dozen, is the group of people is unlike anything you've ever seen

00:43:08.020 in Republican politics.

00:43:08.940 Oh, yeah.

00:43:08.960 Yeah.

00:43:09.060 So you're walking in.

00:43:10.660 There is Conor McGregor.

00:43:12.080 Yes.

00:43:12.200 You turn over, here's some, like, rapper, or you turn over, here's a...

00:43:15.100 Kid Rock smoking a cigar inside.

00:43:16.340 Kid Rock smoking a cigar in the...

00:43:17.940 Only one allowed to.

00:43:19.980 Yeah.

00:43:20.380 I will say, I talked to a lot of people at the party last night, and I have no idea what

00:43:23.000 any of you said.

00:43:23.200 Anybody said, yeah.

00:43:24.880 You just kind of nod.

00:43:25.840 There was a...

00:43:26.320 I told Matt this last night.

00:43:26.920 I agreed to a lot of things I had no idea what I did.

00:43:29.320 Yeah.

00:43:29.840 I said this to you last night, Matt, but this attractive woman was speaking to me at one

00:43:33.420 point, and she's much taller than me, again, because Jewish basketball team, and she

00:43:38.060 had leaned down, and she was saying something to me.

00:43:39.700 You were standing with me.

00:43:40.540 And I was trying for all my might to listen, and we got to the point where she stopped

00:43:46.940 talking, and it became clear that she had asked me a question, and I had not heard one

00:43:51.680 syllable.

00:43:51.700 No, you couldn't hear anything.

00:43:52.480 You couldn't hear anything.

00:43:52.760 Not a single syllable.

00:43:54.060 I believe you said, I really wish I could have heard a single word you just said, but sorry,

00:44:00.660 you know.

00:44:01.160 Nothing.

00:44:01.620 But even that, you know, these events are so schmoozy.

00:44:05.140 That's just what these inaugurations are.

00:44:07.460 And, but here, there's just this, there's the slippery kind of slick DC event, and then

00:44:15.660 there's the just exuberant DC event, and this is the latter.

00:44:19.280 It's very fully in the latter.

00:44:20.400 Very exuberant.

00:44:20.540 So I think this was always part of the charm of Trump.

00:44:22.400 On the way here, so we had to walk for a thousand miles through a blizzard.

00:44:26.980 Uphill both ways.

00:44:27.460 Uphill both ways to get here.

00:44:29.440 And, you know, I was just taking a look at kind of the aesthetics of MAGAville, because

00:44:33.200 DC is now MAGAville.

00:44:34.380 Yes.

00:44:34.600 This is MAGA country.

00:44:35.680 So Jussie Smollett should have made his case this weekend, right?

00:44:37.820 He got it wrong.

00:44:38.360 Polar vortex.

00:44:39.080 Yes.

00:44:39.800 This is MAGA country.

00:44:41.060 And, and, you know, the thing about the Trump aesthetic that's hilarious is that just

00:44:46.420 aesthetically, it's really ugly.

00:44:47.840 Okay.

00:44:48.080 Like the, like the Trump hats, right?

00:44:49.700 Like they are, but no, this is kind of my, my point is that everything aesthetically

00:44:54.720 Trump is 1986 family reunion in Minneapolis, right?

00:45:00.320 Like that's, that's everything.

00:45:01.740 At the mall of America.

00:45:02.440 At the mall of America.

00:45:03.260 Yeah.

00:45:03.660 Right.

00:45:04.100 And you're like, the hats are square and boxy, right?

00:45:06.020 They don't actually fit your head properly.

00:45:07.480 And the, and the ties are too wide.

00:45:09.340 And all the, and all the, all the signs are in like Times New Roman font.

00:45:13.940 It's like, it's hip to be square.

00:45:15.080 It's like the 80s.

00:45:15.720 Yes.

00:45:16.100 That's it.

00:45:16.640 That's the whole thing.

00:45:17.420 That's the whole thing.

00:45:18.100 And so I, and so somebody was saying like, why are we playing God bless America, God

00:45:21.940 bless the USA by Lee Greenland for the 127th time.

00:45:24.400 And it's like, because you know what?

00:45:26.000 Most Americans actually like this kind of stuff.

00:45:27.560 They like it.

00:45:28.000 They kind of like this kind of stuff.

00:45:28.960 It turns out that the aesthetic of the 1980s, we kind of like it.

00:45:32.080 It turns out that Huey Newton, Huey Lewis was not wrong.

00:45:35.900 We like, we like, we like remembering.

00:45:38.200 Yeah.

00:45:38.720 I don't know about Huey Newton.

00:45:40.000 Huey Lewis was wrong.

00:45:40.780 We like remembering back to a time when our nation was still powerful and ascendant and confident.

00:45:45.500 And our hope is that in Trump's second term, we're able to be that kind of.

00:45:48.860 And now we can all feel like Patrick Bateman, like, hey, left, you like Huey Lewis in the

00:45:52.960 news?

00:45:55.100 I will say it is bizarre and surreal to walk around D.C. and everyone, everywhere is a

00:46:00.060 conservative.

00:46:01.840 It's like everywhere you go.

00:46:03.180 It's such a change.

00:46:04.480 I'm looking forward to it because I live, you know, right near here, you know, and it's

00:46:08.340 going to change everything about my actual existence.

00:46:10.600 I love it.

00:46:11.060 Yeah.

00:46:11.260 And we were greeted as liberators.

00:46:12.280 Who's this guy?

00:46:16.780 I don't know.

00:46:17.200 This is a close up on this.

00:46:18.300 Where's his, where's his tie?

00:46:18.900 Where's his tie?

00:46:19.660 Yeah, that's, that's a problem.

00:46:20.980 You're at the inauguration of the president of the United States.

00:46:23.260 This is one of the, one of the things I, who are you?

00:46:27.440 Oh, he's singing.

00:46:27.920 Oh, he's singing.

00:46:28.780 Oh, he's singing.

00:46:29.380 Okay.

00:46:29.780 Oh, he's the opera singer.

00:46:30.920 Oh, this guy's going to have to have an open throat.

00:46:32.820 Because I was going to say, I was going to say that's very Italian of him, but, but that

00:46:36.360 checks out.

00:46:36.920 That actually works.

00:46:37.600 Oh, man, I feel bad that I mocked this guy.

00:46:42.200 Yeah, no, he's great.

00:46:42.800 I've heard him sing before.

00:46:49.140 Can I imagine being in the rotunda of the Capitol with the, with those vast acoustics in that

00:46:55.020 space listening to this?

00:46:56.680 Can I get somebody to turn up my ear a little bit?

00:46:58.260 I'm having a hard time hearing this.

00:46:59.360 What's he singing?

00:47:17.720 Because he's not the star saying the letter.

00:47:18.960 No.

00:47:20.080 But at the Trump rallies, he'll sing opera.

00:47:22.440 Actually, like, pretty beautiful arias.

00:47:24.320 I mean, that's in normal.

00:47:25.620 That's very Trump, right?

00:47:26.700 It's like, memories from cats.

00:47:28.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:47:31.340 He's such a normie.

00:47:32.440 Like, he, everyone knows Trump, right?

00:47:33.620 Like, his tastes are absolutely mid, right?

00:47:36.160 They're absolutely mid-brother, right?

00:47:37.440 It's like, it's like, he likes memories from cats, and he likes Ness and Dorma, right?

00:47:41.060 And he, and he, and he likes my way, my Sinatra.

00:47:43.560 Like, everything that he does is like, he represents the people.

00:47:47.520 Yeah.

00:47:47.680 He is, he is the avatar of the American spirit of the last 50 years.

00:47:51.160 There's no question about it.

00:47:51.960 At least.

00:47:52.440 Even in his garishness.

00:47:54.140 And he always was.

00:47:55.280 This is the thing that, you know, when we, those of us who underestimate it.

00:47:57.540 So, I went from estimating him properly to underestimating him to, I think, estimating him properly.

00:48:02.080 Meaning, in 2012, I wrote a column suggesting he should run for president of the United States.

00:48:05.780 Oh, that's right.

00:48:07.220 That was when he was running, he was thinking about running against Romney.

00:48:09.600 And I wrote a column in 2012 saying he's the most likely person to win.

00:48:12.480 Yeah.

00:48:12.720 And then in 2015, 2016, it was like, okay, maybe he's passed his prime and he's too wild.

00:48:16.900 And then he won, of course.

00:48:17.720 And the thing about Trump, that dude's been internationally famous.

00:48:21.600 Yes.

00:48:22.140 Oh, yeah.

00:48:22.260 For literally 50 years.

00:48:24.060 Yep, yep, yep, yep.

00:48:24.620 For 50 years.

00:48:25.540 I mean, he was in rap videos.

00:48:27.340 Yep.

00:48:27.660 I mean, this guy was in McDonald's commercials.

00:48:29.200 He was in Home Alone.

00:48:29.740 This idea that, the idea that he like came out of nowhere, he came out of nowhere politically,

00:48:33.620 but he certainly didn't come out of nowhere culturally.

00:48:35.260 Yeah.

00:48:35.360 He was always a representative of a giant chunk of the public because you cannot be that famous

00:48:39.840 for that long without being a representative of something in the public spirit that people

00:48:43.840 actually like.

00:48:44.420 Yeah.

00:48:44.760 He's what we said instead of Rockefeller.

00:48:46.680 In the old days, you would have said Rockefeller, you know, now you said Trump, all through

00:48:50.440 the 80s.

00:48:51.000 Especially as a New Yorker, there has not been a day of my life that I have been conscious

00:48:56.660 and not aware of Donald Trump.

00:48:57.880 Yeah.

00:48:58.080 That's not an exaggeration.

00:48:59.160 No.

00:48:59.440 So when people said, he's this radical fringe guy, what are you talking about?

00:49:03.480 He's still Trump from the block.

00:49:04.920 He's still Trump from the block.

00:49:06.140 Yeah.

00:49:06.300 He, you know, I was watching some movie, I can't remember what it was, like a 1993 movie

00:49:12.300 and just randomly they started talking about like, well, maybe Trump will be president.

00:49:15.420 Like that would, people would drop that routinely in like the 80s.

00:49:19.380 So should we be that, Chuck?

00:49:20.720 Maybe not.

00:49:21.520 Right.

00:49:21.620 Maybe there was such a cultural disconnect that happened in the post-Bush era.

00:49:27.400 Yeah.

00:49:27.860 And Hollywood turned so far left and culture turned so far left that we actually just forgot

00:49:31.240 about the people who were really, really, really famous for a very, very long time in

00:49:34.200 the United States.

00:49:34.900 It also exposed a lot of this lawfare.

00:49:37.920 When they went after him with all these investigations, I thought they'd been investigating this guy

00:49:41.800 since I was a child.

00:49:43.720 You know, they're not going to find anything.

00:49:45.100 If he were dirty, that'd have got him by now.

00:49:47.200 He's just not.

00:49:47.940 You know, he's just not.

00:49:48.660 I'm glad that we could just talk over this entire beautiful performance.

00:49:52.840 You know, he wasn't wearing a tie.

00:49:54.020 He was singing his heart out.

00:49:54.680 See, the right doesn't care about the arts.

00:49:56.400 That's what I keep saying.

00:49:57.000 Maybe people are going, who was that guy?

00:50:03.900 How did he get in here?

00:50:08.040 Well, I mean, it's better than the lesbian dance troupe that was planned for Kamala's.

00:50:12.300 Oh, God.

00:50:15.380 Somebody else is coming.

00:50:16.760 Who is this?

00:50:17.400 I don't know.

00:50:17.840 It's like a mystery curtain.

00:50:19.020 I'm enjoying the mystery curtain.

00:50:20.640 The curtain of mystery.

00:50:21.220 It's the Undertaker.

00:50:24.100 Hey, brother.

00:50:25.480 He starts pulling his shirt off.

00:50:30.020 Who are these people?

00:50:31.060 I don't know who any of these people are.

00:50:32.760 Yeah, I actually don't know.

00:50:33.540 We're doing a great job of narrating this.

00:50:35.020 Yeah.

00:50:35.200 We're supposed to be telling the people at home.

00:50:37.700 Yeah, so great job, support staff, for letting us know all these people are walking through.

00:50:41.580 I'm going to blame it on you.

00:50:42.060 I just blame it on the staff.

00:50:43.120 A bunch of random people that we don't know just walked.

00:50:45.300 If you're listening, I'm going to explain in detail what just happened.

00:50:47.760 A curtain opened, some random people we don't know walked through.

00:50:49.820 But the men had ties on, so that was good.

00:50:52.140 Nice.

00:50:52.740 Random people who were invited to the inauguration of the President of the United States inside the rotunda.

00:50:59.020 Wait, Mrs. Vance.

00:50:59.840 Ah, here's our first lady, Melania Trump, entering into the rotunda.

00:51:04.340 Very nice hat.

00:51:04.920 Very fancy hat.

00:51:07.500 She has excellent taste.

00:51:08.620 Do you think we could put her on the covers of some magazines?

00:51:11.560 Magazines now?

00:51:12.320 Oh, it's coming.

00:51:13.640 I guarantee you.

00:51:14.140 Michelle Obama won't appear on them anymore.

00:51:16.200 I guess there's room for the supermodel first lady.

00:51:18.380 That was the pettiest thing about that.

00:51:20.440 Yeah, I think it was.

00:51:22.680 She got like Aubrey Hepburn taste.

00:51:24.240 No, she's really got good taste.

00:51:30.560 Bold to wear a hat, too.

00:51:31.840 Yeah.

00:51:32.000 It says that you're confident in your sense of style.

00:51:34.640 Yeah.

00:51:35.520 I mean, truly.

00:51:36.220 That's a great analysis, though.

00:51:38.440 I know, but I just wasn't expecting, like, actual fashion analysis from our fashion, our straight fashion correspondent, Jeremy Boring.

00:51:45.440 We depend on Jeremy for the fashion.

00:51:46.300 I like to say straight-ish.

00:51:47.800 Fashion.

00:51:49.080 The fashion commentary.

00:51:50.340 Yeah, you have any, like, color palette analysis of what that means for the future of the country.

00:51:57.560 She's painting in bold colors.

00:51:59.640 The contrasting black and white just demonstrates how bold this presidency is going to be.

00:52:03.520 It's a concession, too, from Jill Biden that she decided to wear blue, unlike on election day.

00:52:10.320 She looks so miserable.

00:52:12.120 She does.

00:52:13.060 She looks absolutely miserable.

00:52:15.480 Not miserable enough.

00:52:16.180 She's a ranking member of the Joint Congressional Committee on this wrong rule ceremony.

00:52:18.680 Do you think that's it?

00:52:19.440 Yeah, I think she got what she was saying.

00:52:21.040 You're a merciful man.

00:52:21.700 You know, God comes for us all.

00:52:23.480 That's true.

00:52:23.960 His justice.

00:52:25.460 Here comes the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries.

00:52:28.820 I'm hoping for a Charles II, Trump comes in, he says, gentlemen, go home.

00:52:48.280 The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and Vice President of the United States, the Honorable

00:52:55.280 Kamala Davy Harris.

00:52:57.500 She is so unhappy.

00:52:58.820 Wow.

00:53:00.700 And why not?

00:53:01.780 It's a terrible day for her.

00:53:03.700 Pretty humiliating.

00:53:04.840 Well, we're going to go ahead and kick this over to the live broadcast of Donald Trump's

00:53:08.640 inauguration.

00:53:09.340 Stick around afterwards.

00:53:10.160 We'll be back to give you more inane commentary.

00:53:14.460 And fashion advice.

00:53:17.020 We'll see you guys there.

00:53:18.120 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Associate Justice Kavanaugh to administer the vice presidential

00:53:23.520 oath of office.

00:53:24.580 Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.

00:53:28.900 I, James David Vance, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution

00:53:40.180 of the United States, that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States

00:53:45.140 against all enemies, foreign and domestic, against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that

00:53:52.300 I will bear true faith, that I will bear true faith, and allegiance to the same, and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation, without any mental reservation,

00:54:07.640 or purpose of evasion, or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge,

00:54:14.640 and that I will well and faithfully discharge, the duties of the office, the duties of the

00:54:19.740 office, on which I am about to enter, on which I am about to enter, so help me God, so help

00:54:25.080 me God.

00:54:25.940 Congratulations, Mr. Vice President.

00:54:27.440 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Chief Justice Roberts.

00:54:57.420 Chief Justice Roberts to administer the Presidential Oath of Office.

00:55:00.900 Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.

00:55:04.340 I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear, I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear, that I

00:55:10.600 will faithfully execute, that I will faithfully execute, the office of President of the United

00:55:16.640 States, the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability,

00:55:23.020 and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend.

00:55:27.420 Preserve, protect, and defend.

00:55:29.340 The Constitution of the United States.

00:55:31.260 The Constitution of the United States.

00:55:33.380 So help me God.

00:55:34.280 So help me God.

00:55:35.340 Congratulations, Mr. Vice President.

00:55:36.600 It is my honor and pleasure to introduce to you the 45th and the 47th President of the United

00:55:57.500 States of America, Donald J. Trump.

00:56:01.460 Thank you.

00:56:01.640 Thank you.

00:56:06.560 Thank you.

00:56:08.920 Thank you very much, everybody.

00:56:34.920 Thank you very, very much.

00:56:38.920 Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, Justices of the United States Supreme Court, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and my fellow citizens.

00:57:07.340 The golden age of America begins right now.

00:57:11.340 From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.

00:57:27.340 We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.

00:57:35.340 During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first.

00:57:43.340 Our sovereignty will be reclaimed.

00:57:55.340 Our safety will be restored.

00:57:57.340 The scales of justice will be rebalanced.

00:58:02.340 The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end.

00:58:09.340 And our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous, and free.

00:58:25.340 America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before.

00:58:42.340 I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success.

00:58:51.340 A tide of change is sweeping the country, sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before.

00:59:02.340 But first, we must be honest about the challenges we face.

00:59:06.340 While they are plentiful, they will be annihilated by this great momentum that the world is now witnessing in the United States of America.

00:59:15.340 As we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust.

00:59:20.340 For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair.

00:59:33.340 We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home, while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad.

00:59:44.340 It fails to protect our magnificent law-abiding American citizens, but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.

01:00:00.340 We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders, but refuses to defend American borders or, more importantly, its own people.

01:00:13.340 Our country can no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency, as recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina who have been treated so badly.

01:00:25.340 And other states who are still suffering from a hurricane that took place many months ago.

01:00:35.340 Or more recently, Los Angeles, where we are watching fires still tragically burn from weeks ago without even a token of defense.

01:00:46.340 They're raging through the houses and communities, even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now.

01:00:56.340 They don't have a home any longer. That's interesting. But we can't let this happen. Everyone is unable to do anything about it that's going to change.

01:01:09.340 We have a public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster, yet more money is spent on it than any country anywhere in the world.

01:01:18.340 And we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves in many cases, to hate our country despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them.

01:01:30.340 All of this will change starting today and it will change very quickly.

01:01:47.340 The recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal.

01:01:54.340 And all of these many betrayals that have taken place and to give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy and indeed their freedom.

01:02:07.340 From this moment on, America's decline is over.

01:02:13.340 Our liberties and our nation's glorious destiny will no longer be denied and we will immediately restore the integrity, competency and loyalty of America's government.

01:02:35.340 Over the past eight years, I have been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250 year history.

01:02:42.340 And I've learned a lot along the way.

01:02:45.340 The journey to reclaim our republic has not been an easy one that I can tell you.

01:02:52.340 Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and indeed to take my life.

01:03:01.340 Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear.

01:03:08.340 But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason.

01:03:16.340 I was saved by God to make America great again.

01:03:23.340 Thank you.

01:03:24.340 Thank you very much.

01:03:51.340 That is why each day under our administration of American patriots, we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength.

01:04:03.340 We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color and creed for American citizens.

01:04:17.340 January 20th, 2025 is Liberation Day.

01:04:22.340 It is my hope that our recent presidential election will be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in the history of our country.

01:04:41.340 As our victory showed, the entire nation is rapidly unifying behind our agenda with dramatic increases in support from virtually every element of our society, young and old, men and women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, urban, suburban, rural.

01:05:00.340 And very importantly, we had a powerful win in all seven swing states and the popular vote we won by millions of people.

01:05:15.340 To the black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote.

01:05:27.340 I have heard your vote.

01:05:28.340 I have heard your vote.

01:05:30.340 I have heard your vote.

01:05:31.340 I have heard your voices in the campaign and I look forward to working with you in the years to come.

01:05:37.340 Today is Martin Luther King Day and his honor.

01:05:40.340 This will be a great honor.

01:05:42.340 But in his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a reality.

01:05:48.340 We will make his dream come true.

01:05:50.340 National unity is now returning to America and confidence and pride is soaring like never before.

01:06:19.340 In everything we do, my administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of excellence and unrelenting success.

01:06:28.340 We will not forget our country.

01:06:30.340 We will not forget our Constitution.

01:06:33.340 And we will not forget our God.

01:06:37.340 Can't do that.

01:06:39.340 Today I will sign a series of historic executive orders.

01:06:54.340 With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.

01:07:02.340 It's all about common sense.

01:07:06.340 First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.

01:07:11.340 First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.

01:07:12.340 First, I will declare a national emergency at the southern border.

01:07:13.340 Next, I will declare a national emergency at the southern border.

01:07:16.340 All illegal entry will immediately be halted,

01:07:42.640 and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.

01:07:51.840 We will reinstate my remain-in-Mexico policy.

01:08:02.320 I will end the practice of catch and release.

01:08:05.960 And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.

01:08:21.260 Under the orders I signed today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

01:08:30.460 And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798,

01:08:51.960 I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement

01:08:59.440 to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks,

01:09:04.560 bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil, including our cities and inner cities.

01:09:11.820 As Commander-in-Chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions,

01:09:25.500 and that is exactly what I am going to do.

01:09:29.420 We will do it at a level that nobody has ever seen before.

01:09:33.260 Next, I will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal

01:09:38.400 to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices.

01:09:51.580 The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices,

01:09:57.660 and that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency.

01:10:04.260 We will drill, baby, drill.

01:10:08.400 America will be a manufacturing nation once again,

01:10:30.320 and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have.

01:10:34.440 We have the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on earth,

01:10:38.080 and we are going to use it.

01:10:41.660 We will bring prices down,

01:10:48.160 fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top,

01:10:52.320 and export American energy all over the world.

01:10:56.480 We will be a rich nation again,

01:11:03.200 and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it.

01:11:09.420 With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal,

01:11:13.080 and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate,

01:11:16.300 saving our auto industry,

01:11:18.460 and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers.

01:11:23.120 In other words, you'll be able to buy the car of your choice.

01:11:40.280 We will build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago.

01:11:47.060 And thank you to the autoworkers of our nation for your inspiring vote of confidence.

01:11:53.540 We did tremendously with their vote.

01:11:57.780 I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families.

01:12:06.700 Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries,

01:12:10.720 we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.

01:12:16.800 For this purpose, we are establishing the external revenue service

01:12:29.380 to collect all tariffs, duties, and revenues.

01:12:34.440 It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our treasury, coming from foreign sources.

01:12:41.960 The American dream will soon be back and thriving like never before

01:12:45.640 to restore competence and effectiveness to our federal government.

01:12:50.800 My administration will establish the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.

01:12:56.760 After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression,

01:13:15.760 I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship

01:13:21.300 and bring back free speech to America.

01:13:24.720 Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents.

01:13:48.480 That's something I know something about.

01:13:50.640 We will not allow that to happen.

01:13:54.500 It will not happen again.

01:13:56.240 Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice

01:14:00.860 under the constitutional rule of law.

01:14:03.740 And we are going to bring law and order back to our cities.

01:14:13.260 This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender

01:14:25.780 into every aspect of public and private life.

01:14:35.960 We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based.

01:14:43.260 As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government

01:14:54.240 that there are only two genders, male and female.

01:14:58.340 This week, I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate with full back pain.

01:15:27.040 And I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty.

01:15:47.240 Our armed forces will be free to focus on their sole mission, defeating America's enemies.

01:16:01.840 Like in 2017, we will again build the strongest military in the world.

01:16:31.820 We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.

01:16:44.160 My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.

01:16:56.160 That's what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier.

01:17:00.160 I'm pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families.

01:17:23.160 America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on earth.

01:17:51.160 Inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world.

01:17:57.160 A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

01:18:05.160 America and we will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.

01:18:16.160 President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent.

01:18:31.160 He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama after the United States.

01:18:45.160 The United States, I mean, think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal.

01:18:59.160 We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made.

01:19:04.160 And Panama's promise to us has been broken.

01:19:08.160 The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated.

01:19:13.160 American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or form.

01:19:23.160 And that includes the United States Navy.

01:19:26.160 And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal.

01:19:30.160 And we didn't give it to China.

01:19:32.160 We gave it to Panama and we're taking it back.

01:19:35.160 Above all, my message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor and the vitality of history's greatest civilization.

01:20:04.160 So as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success.

01:20:11.160 We will not be deterred.

01:20:13.160 Together, we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy and disease free.

01:20:20.160 The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory,

01:20:29.160 builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.

01:20:36.160 And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.

01:20:47.160 Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation.

01:21:10.160 great nation. And right now, our nation is more ambitious than any other. There's no nation like

01:21:18.000 our nation. Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers.

01:21:25.460 The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call of the next great adventure

01:21:32.200 resounds from within our souls. Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies

01:21:40.980 on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on

01:21:47.380 earth. No one comes close. Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land

01:21:54.180 of untamed wilderness. They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers,

01:22:02.200 won the wild west, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions from poverty,

01:22:09.240 harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens, and put the universe

01:22:16.700 of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand. If we work together, there is nothing

01:22:23.280 we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve. Many people thought it was impossible for me

01:22:30.840 to stage such a historic political comeback. But as you see today, here I am, the American

01:22:37.460 people have spoken.

01:22:38.460 I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do.

01:23:04.460 In America, the impossible is what we do best.

01:23:16.240 From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston

01:23:23.220 to right here in Washington, D.C., our country was forged and built by the generations of patriots who

01:23:31.260 gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom. They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys

01:23:39.140 and factory workers, steel workers and coal miners, police officers and pioneers who pushed onward,

01:23:46.180 marched forward, and let no obstacle defeat their spirit or their pride. Together, they

01:23:53.160 laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won two world wars, defeated

01:24:02.040 fascism and communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that they faced. After all we have been

01:24:11.240 through together, we stand on the verge of the four greatest years in American history. With your help, we will

01:24:18.420 restore America promise and we will rebuild the nation that we love and we love it so much. We are one people, one

01:24:27.300 family and one glorious nation under God. So to every parent who dreams for their child and every child who dreams for

01:24:35.700 their future, I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you. We are going to win like never before.

01:24:44.580 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

01:25:03.460 In recent years, our nation has suffered greatly.

01:25:07.460 But we are going to bring it back and make it great again, greater than ever before.

01:25:14.340 We will be a nation like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism.

01:25:20.340 Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally

01:25:27.780 unpredictable. America will be respected again and admired again, including by people of religion, faith, and goodwill.

01:25:38.020 We will be prosperous. We will be proud. We will be strong and we will win like never before.

01:25:45.620 We will not be conquered. We will not be intimidated. We will not be broken and we will not fail. From this

01:25:54.420 day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign, and independent nation. We will stand

01:26:00.980 bravely. We will live proudly. We will dream boldly. And nothing will stand in our way because we are

01:26:09.620 Americans. The future is ours. And our golden age has just begun. Thank you. God bless America. Thank you all.

01:26:18.740 Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

01:26:26.420 Well, there you have it. America has a new president, 47 himself, Donald Trump, just inaugurated in the

01:26:32.580 Capitol Rotunda right behind us in a unique and celebratory for the large, for the most part,

01:26:40.260 ceremony. And I think that the theme of it could best be encapsulated in a quote from Donald Trump

01:26:44.660 during his 29-minute address. God saved my life to make America great again. Here with the first

01:26:51.060 reaction, Ben Shapiro.

01:26:52.340 So, it's a pretty impressive speech from the former and current president of the United States.

01:26:58.260 President Trump gave a 29-minute address, very short for him. It began with him suggesting that

01:27:03.780 this was the beginning of a new golden era for the United States. That obviously is his ambition. And then

01:27:08.420 he recapped the last four years, which he characterized as dark, depressing. I think

01:27:13.060 obviously he was right in all of that. And then he began to lay out an incredibly pragmatic course

01:27:17.540 of action that he's going to pursue immediately. And that includes everything from designating

01:27:22.100 drug cartels, terrorist organizations, to putting back in place Romain in Mexico,

01:27:26.340 from declaring a national energy emergency, to drill baby drill, those are his words, to a

01:27:31.300 foreign policy that's led with strength. He mentioned the release of three hostages by Hamas

01:27:36.020 over the weekend. The president of the United States also dropped some pretty charged language

01:27:40.740 about what he sees as the future of American territory. He used the phrase manifest destiny

01:27:45.060 to describe the possibility of expanding America's territorial holdings, including regaining some

01:27:50.660 level of control over, for example, the Panama Canal, which he said we did not build for the use of

01:27:55.620 China or ownership by China, which of course is exactly correct. The bottom line is this. President

01:28:00.420 Trump said in the speech that he is going to be a common sense president. And that is what you heard.

01:28:04.740 This is a president who is much more focused than he was during his first term. This is a president

01:28:08.980 who actually has an agenda. This is a president who is ready to make that agenda happen in real

01:28:14.180 time. Now, I don't think that it was the most soaring rhetoric I've ever heard from President

01:28:18.740 Trump, but it was some of the most pragmatic rhetoric that I've ever heard from President Trump.

01:28:22.820 Again, it was a shorter address than he usually gives in these sorts of situations. And I think that

01:28:26.900 played to his benefit because again, it allowed the American public to focus on what he was saying.

01:28:31.700 He suggested that maybe the most important wars we fight are the ones that we never fight,

01:28:35.060 which is a strategy of deterrence that he has suggested in the past and that he pursued with

01:28:38.900 elacrity during his first term. He suggested that when it came to foreign trade, that we were not

01:28:42.900 going to impoverish American workers in order to make people rich elsewhere. We'll see how that manifests

01:28:47.700 in terms of his actual trade and tariff policy. But the bottom line for President Trump is,

01:28:52.020 was and will be utilitarian. It's going to be about winning. It's going to be a pragmatic

01:28:56.180 winning for the American people. That's the theme that he kept coming back to. And he also,

01:29:00.340 in the more inspirational moments of the speech, I think, talked about what he sees as the future

01:29:05.220 of the country and the past of the country, the sort of pioneer spirit that it takes to cross

01:29:08.820 mountains and settle along rivers, the kind of pioneer spirit that it takes to, for example,

01:29:13.700 go to the moon and plant an American flag on the moon. There's an aspirational nature that's

01:29:18.260 combined with the pragmatic utilitarian on the ground stuff that I think is going to make

01:29:22.420 President Trump's second term unique and could, in fact, make President Trump's second term

01:29:26.660 historically unique. It's pretty rare to have a president who's both pursuing the sort of

01:29:30.820 pragmatic on the ground things that are necessary to fix the broken toilet and at the same time

01:29:35.220 pursuing the big ideas, the big bold ideas. And it's been a long time in this country since we've

01:29:39.940 pursued actual bold ideas. For a very long time, probably my entire political lifetime, we've been

01:29:45.220 stuck in the position of sort of global managerial class. It's our job to sort of fix things around

01:29:50.420 the world or fix things at home. President Trump did talk about innovation. He talked about

01:29:54.500 dynamism. He talked about shooting for something that was larger. And again, there is to his

01:29:59.940 administration a seriousness of purpose that I think a lot of people found lacking at the very

01:30:03.700 beginning of his first administration. He's learned something. Again, the key line was one

01:30:07.780 that Jeremy mentioned a moment ago. And that key line was that God saved his life in order to make

01:30:12.900 America great again. And I think that because that happened, because he narrowly avoided being

01:30:17.220 assassinated in front of the American people, having his head blown off on national television,

01:30:21.300 I think that he does have a seriousness of purpose. He could sit back on his laurels. He could right now

01:30:26.260 say, listen, I won. I did the thing that I set out to do. I won one term. I lost. And now I came

01:30:30.820 back and I won a second term in historic fashion. He's not doing that. He actually has an agenda.

01:30:35.380 And you can see that agenda unfolding in real time. We were noticing as this speech was unfolding,

01:30:39.780 the White House site had already shifted over to a picture of President Trump with the label,

01:30:43.940 America is back. And it's worth mentioning right here that on his way out the door, this broke

01:30:49.060 pretty much as President Trump got up to speak, that Joe Biden actually pardoned all the members

01:30:53.780 of his own immediate family in preparation for the idea that Republicans were going to go after them.

01:30:58.580 That's not true. The reality is, again, that President Trump, I think, is not going to be

01:31:03.620 focused. And I hope he's not going to be focused. And I think his speech suggests this. This is not a

01:31:07.060 revenge minded administration. This is a forward looking administration that is looking to solve the

01:31:10.980 problems of the American people that is going to put American interests first on foreign and

01:31:15.060 domestic policy. And again, it's going to be measured by its success. That was the word he used

01:31:19.540 many times during the speech, success. And that's always been President Trump's metric of what matters

01:31:24.820 is success and winning. I don't think any of that is going to change in the second administration.

01:31:29.380 But I do think the approach will change much more practical. He actually knows how Washington works

01:31:32.740 now. He's appointing people who are going to break the things that need to be broken.

01:31:35.860 I'm not sure I've ever been more optimistic about the country in my lifetime, which is,

01:31:40.180 I think, a far cry from where all of us were four years ago. Our faith has been placed in President

01:31:46.100 Trump as president of the United States again. And I think that the faith of the American people,

01:31:50.180 I hope and I pray, I think as all of us do, that the hope that the American people have placed in

01:31:54.340 President Trump is well justified. Again, it's an incredible moment. And I think we are all feeling that.

01:32:02.900 Can I just say, that was actually maybe my favorite President Trump speech of all time,

01:32:09.380 because I thought that it was short. It was punchy. It got to the point. It was hopeful

01:32:15.700 and optimistic in a way that we don't hear very often. We haven't heard in a long time

01:32:20.180 from an American president. My favorite part of the speech by far is when he used the phrase

01:32:26.020 manifest destiny, because I think that we could talk about these practical things. That was the

01:32:29.620 other great thing about the speech. There's a lot of practical things we're going to do. But then

01:32:32.260 there's also, okay, we talk about making America a great country. What does that actually mean?

01:32:36.740 What does it mean to be a great country? I think capturing that feeling of let's go out and conquer

01:32:42.340 something. Let's expand. Manifest destiny brings us back to when America was truly a great country.

01:32:47.140 We haven't had, he talked about planting a flag on Mars, which I think is another of my favorite parts

01:32:52.020 of this speech. Because when was the last time America had a triumph, like a historic victory,

01:32:57.540 where everyone together as one people celebrated something? Probably the last time was landing on

01:33:02.340 the moon, which was a long time ago. So I think Trump is talking about having moments like that where

01:33:08.500 the American people together are triumphant. Well, we should not divide the high-minded,

01:33:12.020 idealistic stuff from the practical, pragmatic stuff. I think to your point, Ben,

01:33:16.500 that the focus that he showed in this speech is clear on both sides of it. So on the one hand,

01:33:22.820 he says, we will pursue our manifest destiny. That is an amazing 10,000 degree view. And then he says,

01:33:30.580 we're going to take back the Panama Canal, that we built that, we gave up our lives for that. We didn't

01:33:35.860 mean to give it to China. We're going to take that. He says, we're going to secure our nation and our

01:33:40.340 border. He says, we're going to label the cartels terrorist organizations. That means that a lot of

01:33:46.020 cholos with face tattoos are about to get a visit from US special forces. There's high-minded and

01:33:50.900 there's practical, even on the tariffs. When he said, we're going to rename Mount McKinley to be

01:33:57.060 Mount McKinley, I was joking with Jeremy off camera. I said, and we're going to pay for it through

01:34:01.380 McKinley tariffs. And then immediately he said it into his practical tariff policy. So I think the focus

01:34:07.540 and the actual coherence to this policy is so encouraging. I was here for it already. I expected

01:34:14.580 it and I felt he delivered even more than I was hoping for from the speech.

01:34:18.340 You know, I have to say, first of all, I just want to say this one thing. I love this freaking

01:34:22.900 country. I love it so much. I love the bizarreness of it. I love the chaos of it. I love the fact

01:34:28.660 that a Catholic and a Protestant and a Jew and a black guy and a white guy are praying to God

01:34:33.620 together. That to me, that's what I'm here for. That's why, you know, I left this country for seven

01:34:37.780 years. When I came back, I knew exactly why I came back. I came back for this. I came back for this moment,

01:34:42.740 but I also came back for this fight and all the fights that we have to go through to keep that

01:34:46.340 thing alive. You know, this wasn't, this wasn't Lincoln's second inaugural. It wasn't like this

01:34:51.300 beautiful, uh, let's come together thing. But even though I believe this is a country for all kinds

01:34:56.820 of people, it's not a country for every idea. It's not a country for the idea that you can cut

01:35:01.300 children to pieces for some sexual, you know, craziness that happens to pass through the university

01:35:06.340 system. And their ideas just in the same way, it's not a country for bigotry. It's also not

01:35:12.020 a country to just let anything happen and enforce it by, you know, bullying people into silence. So

01:35:17.540 in a way, even though it was not a uniting speech, it was a speech saying we just came through four

01:35:22.020 years of garbage. It was a speech redefining the borders, not just on our Southern border,

01:35:27.860 not just on our Northern border, but also on our border of ideas. The ideas of freedom, the ideas is,

01:35:32.820 is, is Liberty. When that guy, he was saying, let freedom ring, let freedom ring. I was thinking,

01:35:36.740 absolutely. Let it ring because it's just been, we've forgotten. We've forgotten it. It's been

01:35:41.540 four years when the pandemic happened. The fact that people could be forced out of their churches,

01:35:45.780 the fact that people could be forced into their homes, forced to wear masks, forced to take drugs

01:35:49.540 they didn't want. That is not America. That is un-American. It should be excluded from any vision

01:35:54.500 of the future. I want to talk about the fact that the New York Times headline tomorrow is definitely going to be

01:35:58.740 the most divisive inaugural address in U.S. presidential history. We're going to get to

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01:37:20.020 President Trump and President Biden, along with their wives and their vice presidents,

01:37:27.540 exiting the Capitol here, posing for some photographs as they wait for

01:37:31.460 their vehicles, which presumably at this point will take them to,

01:37:35.060 I think typically what happens is the president goes and has a luncheon with legislators. But things

01:37:40.740 are a little bit upside down this week. I'm not sure if that's exactly what's going to happen or if

01:37:44.500 they're going to take him straight to his live remarks at the auditorium here in Nashville.

01:37:48.260 He might go back to the White House to sign some executive orders.

01:37:50.340 He's doing the executive orders. He's doing the executive orders they've told us at 5 p.m.

01:37:54.420 in front of the crowd at the arena. In fact, there's a great photo. I don't know if we have

01:37:58.740 access to it, but they've brought the presidential signing desk out into the middle of the arena.

01:38:02.260 That's unbelievable.

01:38:02.740 And it's currently set up where 15,000 or 20,000 people will soon be gathered.

01:38:07.220 I think that the optics, because the optics were very weird this time, right? You didn't get the

01:38:11.300 big, spanning vistas that are usually behind us, that we set up for and spent a lot of money

01:38:16.740 to make sure that we caught on camera. And because of that, I do think that it actually

01:38:20.820 benefited Trump in some ways. I think that because the speech was quite practical and because it

01:38:25.860 wasn't nearly as soaring as like a second inaugural by Lincoln or something, because of that, the

01:38:30.900 intimacy of the surroundings, I think, played in his favor. He wasn't booming out about remaining

01:38:35.540 in Mexico over a crowd of 750,000 or a million people. Instead, he was saying it directly to the

01:38:40.020 American people in a pretty intimate fashion. I think that may be something that is worthwhile and

01:38:44.980 that really plays to his benefit. Because the truth is, when you're speaking common sense to

01:38:48.580 people, you don't need to thunder it. You just need to say it. And I think that what he did in

01:38:52.420 that speech, and again, keeping it focused, like we had an over-under bet that was going to be

01:38:56.820 perfectly transparent with the audience. And I went way over. I thought for sure, it's the second

01:39:01.140 inaugural, he's going to go for it, right? Whatever William Henry Harrison's record is, you got to put your

01:39:06.260 name at the top of the record books, man. If you ain't number one, you're nothing. But instead,

01:39:09.860 he actually went really, really short for him. And I think that benefited him. I think that he's,

01:39:16.260 I'm hoping that he's starting to understand that the power that he has is best used sometimes as

01:39:22.100 pepper rather than as salt. You know, I think his sincerity came across too. I saw Trump at MSG,

01:39:27.540 which is probably one of the coolest speeches he's ever given. And when he walked on stage, I'd never

01:39:32.260 really seen him do that live, oddly enough. And I had this thought, I said, oh, he's Elvis.

01:39:38.180 That's, that's why this works is he's Elvis. And you don't, that doesn't totally come across on TV.

01:39:42.900 Well, on TV, when he, he brought up God a lot in that speech. And I don't think it was cynical at

01:39:48.180 all. I think it was sincere. I think that guy got religion in a field in Pennsylvania. In fact,

01:39:53.300 I don't know how you couldn't get religion in, in that field in Pennsylvania. And, and even there,

01:39:58.020 he tied the ideal to the practical when he said, God saved my life to make America great again. I

01:40:04.660 think he believes that deep down in his heart. I certainly believe that deep down in my heart.

01:40:08.740 And I think it really came across as, as truthful.

01:40:11.460 By the way, I'm going to say that I think the Catholics won the invocation game today.

01:40:14.660 Yes, absolutely.

01:40:15.380 Cardinal Dolan's invocation was, I think, the best invocation.

01:40:19.620 The best prayers I think I've heard in Inaugurals.

01:40:21.780 Yes, yes. And very, and very, you know, I don't want to use the word aggressive,

01:40:25.780 but sincere and definitive. There was not the kind of reticence that I've heard.

01:40:29.380 The first two in particular were masculine. That's what stood out about them to me. You

01:40:32.420 don't often get masculine prayers, particularly at events like this. And now we're saying goodbye to

01:40:39.220 President Biden, who's about to enter the Marine One helicopter, which should take off,

01:40:44.500 not far behind us. I'm trying to hold myself back here. Don't let the door hit you where the

01:40:48.180 good Lord is placed. I don't know. It's a, it's a very heavy thing to consider leaving the presidency.

01:40:53.620 Of course. But not for us. He's being, he is being replaced by someone who knows how it feels.

01:40:58.500 Also, does he understand that that's happening to him? I mean, I think that's, that's the central

01:41:01.700 question. He can run again. You only have one time.

01:41:06.580 You know, America's third non-consecutive.

01:41:08.580 I don't know if you were watching his face when the singer was singing the national anthem.

01:41:13.780 He looked like he was going to weep. He looked like he was going to weep,

01:41:16.420 and not tears of joy. That's for sure. Yeah. And they were tough on him. You know,

01:41:20.260 Franklin Grant came out and he gave that, he said, you know, this is, this is a great,

01:41:24.100 we've been saved. Four years were very dark. I mean, Trump was tough on him. The first

01:41:27.940 10 minutes of the speech was Trump basically just curb stomping him. Yeah. He was like,

01:41:31.780 here's all the things that are wrong with the country because of what's happened over the course

01:41:34.740 of the last few years. He's looking right behind.

01:41:40.260 Here we have President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance seeing off President Biden, whose helicopter is

01:41:46.340 about to take off. I think probably from our jib shot, we may even be able to catch the image.

01:41:51.940 Oh, well, bye. Yeah. Bye-bye. Catch you later.

01:41:58.420 Yeah, now we're all looking for the helicopter. Is that the helicopter? No, that's the, that's the

01:42:02.340 new helicopter covering it, yeah. Well, I mean, it didn't warm up out here, so theoretically they

01:42:06.900 could have done the inauguration out here. It got real nice. Certainly. Certainly.

01:42:10.340 Security. The point you made about this being a small, intimate area, it made him sound much more confident.

01:42:16.260 He wasn't enforcing his will. He was just saying, I'm going to do this stuff. And I like that a lot.

01:42:21.220 Even the little asides work better intimately. He says, you know, we're going to stop the

01:42:26.100 persecution of political enemies. I know something about that.

01:42:30.420 No, you're totally right. If he says it softly, it's different than if he's thundering that to a

01:42:33.140 million people. That's exactly right. I totally agree with that. And again, I think that he spelled

01:42:37.700 out some very practical policies day one. And if you list those policies, those are 80-20 policies.

01:42:42.980 Those are 80-20 policies. The thing that, one of the things that President Trump, I think,

01:42:45.780 is really doing here is the thing that you're supposed to do when you get in office, which

01:42:49.300 is focus on the policies where the vast majority of Americans actually like the policy and get off

01:42:53.620 on the right foot. So when he's talking about border enforcement or remain in Mexico, or we're

01:42:57.940 going to, we're going to go after criminal aliens, right? He specifically said criminal as opposed to

01:43:02.820 like all illegal aliens, because he can see the polling, which suggests that it's a little bit wishy-washy

01:43:07.060 about like all illegal, like most recent. But criminals is like an 80-20 issue.

01:43:10.740 Oh, that's right.

01:43:11.300 He picked a bunch of 80-20 issues. And by the way, one of my favorite parts of the speech that

01:43:15.540 we haven't mentioned yet was him talking about the death of diversity, equity, and inclusion,

01:43:19.540 right?

01:43:19.780 Yes, that's right.

01:43:20.420 The end of DEI and the return of merit is a huge, huge thing. And maybe a defining feature of what,

01:43:26.900 I think, the defining feature of what's made America exceptional in the first place. I also

01:43:30.660 want to buy, I said to Drew, I do want to buy some stock in superlatives. If somebody has like an ETF

01:43:34.500 in superlatives, I'm a all-in, life savings. I can get a lot of use of superlatives over the

01:43:39.460 course of the next four years.

01:43:40.260 But once again, DEI is un-American. It's just racism. It's just actually institutionalized racism.

01:43:46.260 And it should be just kicked out the door. The fact that we have to have an executive order

01:43:50.260 to declare that people are male and female is like bizarre.

01:43:52.900 That almost made me sad when Trump said there are only two sexes.

01:43:56.500 And from today forward, American government will recognize that one plus one equals two.

01:44:03.220 That's where we've come at this. And we sort of have to state that.

01:44:06.900 And now we get to the practical business of governing. And I think one of the things that

01:44:09.460 Trump has a lot of latitude to do, and this is one place where he's unique, is because he has

01:44:14.660 built such a broad coalition. When it comes to the actual policy making at the congressional level,

01:44:19.700 right? There's a couple different levels of policy. His executive orders, I think,

01:44:23.140 we're all going to be very, very happy with as a general rule. When it comes to legislative policy,

01:44:27.620 it's going to get messy. And it's going to mess real quick. Mike Johnson has basically no majority,

01:44:31.940 has a majority of one vote, one vote. And meanwhile, over in the Senate, there's a majority of three,

01:44:37.460 but two of those three, but you also have Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins.

01:44:40.980 Passed small bills, reinforcing the executive orders. Don't go for giant omnibus where there's

01:44:46.100 going to be three years of negotiations. Every one of these executive orders.

01:44:51.780 But here's the problem. The reason, okay, so here's why that's not going to happen.

01:44:55.140 Ideally, and this is where the battle is going to be, and I think that we need to be practical about

01:44:58.100 it. Here's President Biden's helicopter taking off. If we go into our wide shot, we'll probably be able

01:45:03.060 to see. Well, coming around. There it is. Wow. See you. Catch you later, dude. See you, buddy.

01:45:15.380 Wow. The last time a helicopter took off from this kind of disaster was Vietnam.

01:45:20.980 I'm going to take a selfie with Biden leaving.

01:45:26.180 Pretty remarkable. Bye.

01:45:28.100 Catch you later. Toodles.

01:45:30.660 See you, pal. It couldn't come a moment to see you. All right.

01:45:33.140 All right. Woo. Hey.

01:45:35.060 Catch you later. Woo.

01:45:37.860 Toodaloo. Wow.

01:45:43.060 The crowd behind us equally happy to see President Biden heading back to Delaware.

01:45:48.980 We're going to enjoy some nice beach time with the newly parted family.

01:45:52.020 That's right. I will say that some of the, some of the most, um...

01:45:55.780 He didn't pardon the grandkids, though. He did not pardon the grandkids.

01:45:57.700 We can still go after the grandkids. Let's get them.

01:45:59.140 I think one of the most, uh, enjoyable aspects of actually being here, obviously,

01:46:02.820 it was kind of a cold vantage and we didn't get the beautiful view of the inauguration that we had

01:46:06.500 expected to have. Um, but we did get to feel the rudders as the former president left. And in the

01:46:13.060 exact moment that President, uh, Trump finished saying the oath of office, a cannon salute broke

01:46:20.580 out on the grounds of the Capitol. 21 gun salute.

01:46:22.900 Terrifying our security, of course.

01:46:24.580 Yeah. You wouldn't have been able to experience it unless you were just right here. So visceral.

01:46:28.500 Well, to get back to the legislative policy question, I think that one of the reasons

01:46:31.780 you're seeing Republicans say things like one giant bill is because when you're trying to

01:46:35.780 cobble together coalitions that are this broad and this diverse, it is incredibly difficult to

01:46:40.020 pass narrowly focused bills without losing two or three votes who can then hold up the entire work.

01:46:44.900 So I think that the goal here from President Trump, and it is going to take the bully pulpit to do it,

01:46:48.660 you know, our hope is conservatives is going to be that conservatives do hold up the works enough

01:46:52.660 to actually get some conservative policy in there. At the end of the day, in order for anything to get

01:46:56.580 done, everything is going to be a crap sandwich. That's just the reality. And it's going to be

01:47:00.340 especially a crap sandwich because they can only do this through reconciliation. There has never been,

01:47:04.740 as far as I'm aware in, in modern times, two reconciliation bills passed in the first year.

01:47:09.620 It's usually one. And so what they're going to try and do, if they can get away with it with the

01:47:12.660 Office of Management and Budget and with CBO, is going to be whether they can get through

01:47:17.460 border security and reinforcement of the Trump tax cuts. Everything else is going to be executive

01:47:22.740 policy. And that's just an unfortunate way that the government has now come to operate. And that's

01:47:28.260 going to have to be the next step for the American people. It's going to be to elect a coalition

01:47:32.500 of Republicans broad enough that you can actually go through a normal appropriations process when

01:47:36.500 you're trying to pass a damn bill. That's right. Well, if you can't, then you don't actually have

01:47:40.820 a legislature anymore. Yeah, that is the problem. That's what it really comes down to.

01:47:43.460 But that's not the president's fault. That's the legislature's fault for sending all their power

01:47:47.380 away. Yes. I would also like to see a bill, a law, if not a constitutional amendment,

01:47:53.620 saying that laws have to be a readable size. If you have a thousand page law, you don't know what's in

01:47:59.540 it. Like that continuing resolution. They can do it. They went from a 1,200, 1,500 page CR down to a

01:48:05.700 150 page CR overnight. I will say though that AI is going to change this. I'm not being glib. You

01:48:13.300 can take a 1,200 page bill, upload it into Grok, and you can ask Grok any question you want about

01:48:20.500 it. It will tell you everything that's in the bill instantly. It is a complete game changer.

01:48:25.620 And I think that activists and watchdog groups will make faster use of this than actual congressmen.

01:48:30.900 We will know what is in these bills instantly from now on. So now they're going to get longer,

01:48:35.140 is what you're saying. He's right. Yeah. Exactly. So a huge day. We have Donald Trump now,

01:48:41.700 the 47th president, going in to have a luncheon with congressional leaders. And after which,

01:48:48.180 there's typically a parade, which would go right behind us down Pennsylvania Avenue. Now that's

01:48:52.020 going to take place inside an arena here in Washington, D.C. But we also have big news at

01:48:57.220 the Daily Wire because with this new four year term of President Trump, we're also going to be

01:49:03.140 expanding our news division and really covering D.C. in a much deeper way than we've ever done

01:49:08.740 before. And that includes having a brand new White House correspondent, which we've never had before.

01:49:13.780 And now we will have. And listen, if if J.D. Vance's remarks on this are accurate, maybe we'll even

01:49:20.420 eventually get a seat toward the front because apparently, according to Vice President Vance and Donald Trump,

01:49:25.140 they want to kick the legacy guys to the back of the room, which, you know, wouldn't hurt my heart

01:49:28.820 any. But we do have this wonderful new White House correspondent. She's been with the Daily Wire

01:49:33.700 for some time now. In fact, she was with us for a while, left, and is now back.

01:49:37.140 And it's our very own. I know that I said on X that it was all the guys at the Babylon Bee,

01:49:41.460 who also would have been good at the job. But it is, in fact, our very own

01:49:45.620 Mary Margaret Olihan, who is here with us right now. Mary Margaret.

01:49:51.460 Mary Margaret. Hello. Thank you so much for having me back on. And it's an honor

01:49:58.180 to be Daily Wire's new White House correspondent. I don't take this lightly. I'm very excited to bring

01:50:04.660 the news to our viewers. And after the last four years, I think it's more clear than ever that new

01:50:09.700 media is so important. We belong in the briefing room. We need to be bringing the American public

01:50:16.020 these stories and sharing with them the truth that legacy media has no intention of ever sharing

01:50:21.620 with them. So I'm excited to be in there. I'm excited to be asking questions to the Trump

01:50:26.100 administration. And I'm excited to be sharing what the legacy media is not going to be asking them

01:50:31.540 as well. So big year for us, big next four years for all of us.

01:50:36.740 We're really excited to have you with the company, of course, and to have you in this new role. You'll be in

01:50:41.220 the White House on a day to day basis, being able to ask the kinds of questions that we haven't

01:50:45.220 been able to ask as conservatives in previous administrations. You look really, really cold

01:50:50.260 right now. It is very, very cold. I'm standing outside of Union Station here in Washington, D.C.,

01:50:59.460 where we've been talking to all of these Trump supporters who, like you were sharing earlier,

01:51:04.500 wanted to be on the National Mall for the inauguration. And unfortunately, they can't be.

01:51:08.980 But I will tell you, Jeremy, I have not spoken to anyone that was in a bad mood,

01:51:13.220 anyone that was discouraged. And I might add, it is freezing out here, but they're all beaming.

01:51:18.980 They're smiling. We walked down to Kelly's Irish Times, which is one of my favorite pubs here in D.C.

01:51:24.580 The entire bar was filled with Trump supporters. They were so happy and excited as they cheered and

01:51:30.900 watched Trump be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States. And Tom, who's working the camera

01:51:37.380 with me and I, we were saying it's some of our favorite footage we've ever gotten,

01:51:40.660 these Trump supporters reacting to this inauguration. So really awesome day. And it's so exciting to be

01:51:46.260 here. It's really unique for D.C. I mean, it's the first time I've ever been here and felt like

01:51:50.580 conservatives had a real presence on the streets. Red hats everywhere, sequined vests everywhere.

01:51:56.260 It really is. It's MAGA country in D.C. right now.

01:52:00.820 It is. It is. You walk out outside and you can hear people listening to the inauguration on their

01:52:05.780 phone. A bunch of teenage boys just walked by us and they were singing the whole like

01:52:10.180 na na na na song. Hey, hey, hey, goodbye. That's Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.

01:52:15.700 So it's just so much fun. And the MAGA hats are everywhere. I don't remember this in 2017. I know,

01:52:22.020 you know, there was a strong Trump presence, but this is unlike that. And I think part of that is

01:52:27.220 this coalition that Trump has built, whether it's the MAHA moms or the Parents United Against

01:52:32.900 Transgender Ideology or people who are just sick and tired of the economy being so bad and

01:52:38.180 having criminals come across our border. But this, it's a really unified front. And look,

01:52:43.140 I lived in D.C. for 10 years. I am not used to this many masculine men walking around

01:52:48.500 rather than just happy people being here. So it's a new scene.

01:52:54.660 Well, thank you, Mary Margaret. We'll be checking back in with you. That's

01:52:57.700 Daily Wire White House correspondent, Mary Margaret Olehan. And we're going to go

01:53:00.820 to the Capitol again right now, where newly inaugurated Vice President J.D. Vance is giving remarks.

01:53:06.260 President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

01:53:09.220 No, he's right. I looked. I said, oh, look at this beautiful sunny day. We blew it. We blew it.

01:53:23.380 And then I went outside and we were freezing. You would have been very unhappy. The sun was very

01:53:29.060 deceptive. I will tell you, it is cold out. And I'm sort of saying, you know, that was so beautiful

01:53:34.260 today. Maybe they should do it there every four years. Does that make sense? I don't know.

01:53:39.300 Because, you know, the outdoor thing is really good, but it gets a little cold around this time

01:53:43.380 of the year, as some people have noticed. And a lot of times they suffer through it.

01:53:48.180 There was no suffering in that room. It was 72 degrees. It was perfect. We're the best acoustics,

01:53:52.980 the best acoustics I think I've ever heard in a room. This is not so bad either.

01:53:57.060 But I just want to say, you're a younger, far more beautiful audience than I just spoke to.

01:54:06.020 And I want to keep it off the record. I want to keep that off the record.

01:54:12.580 Because I don't want to have all those big shots up there. I don't want to think you're

01:54:16.420 more powerful than them. You look better than them. And I love you.

01:54:20.500 Now, we just had a great time. We just had a great day. This was amazing. You know,

01:54:29.700 when you think we took a journey, I mentioned in the speech, a lot of people said that was not a

01:54:34.900 journey that was possible. And it was indeed possible. I didn't really know too much about

01:54:39.860 what they were saying when they say that, but a lot of people felt it. And we hooked up with JD very

01:54:46.500 early. I watched JD over a period of time. I endorsed him in Ohio. He was a great,

01:54:51.940 a great Senator and very, very smart. The only one smarter than him was his wife. That was,

01:54:59.300 I would have chosen her, but somehow the line of the line of succession didn't work that way.

01:55:05.140 But now she's great. And he's great. This is a great, beautiful couple and

01:55:10.100 unbelievable career. I just said to him, you are very upwardly mobile because he hasn't been doing

01:55:16.340 it that long. But he picked it up so quickly. Remember, the first week was a little bit like

01:55:21.620 the fake news was hitting him really hard. And I said, oh, this may be tough. But after that,

01:55:27.860 it was smooth sailing for him. He took on everybody. He took on the meanest.

01:55:34.340 I don't want to use the word corrupt because we're into a new system. So let's wait till

01:55:38.340 the corruption begins because it will. But he took on some pretty mean people and he handled it well.

01:55:44.340 I want to also congratulate Mike Johnson for the job that he's doing.

01:55:53.220 Steve, we gave him a majority of almost nothing. And then I said to make it tougher on him,

01:55:59.700 let me take two or three of the people, right? I said, he'll only have to suffer with that for

01:56:04.260 about three months. How are they doing, by the way? Are they, is that moving along?

01:56:07.620 I said, do you mind if I take this one, that one and a couple of others? He didn't mind. He can

01:56:14.980 handle it. No, he's a man that's liked by everybody. I've never met a man like this. You've got two,

01:56:19.380 how many is it? 219 or 220 or something? 220. And of the 220, 219 really like him. I noticed he got

01:56:26.340 one negative vote once about two weeks ago. But I think even 220 like him, if you want to know the

01:56:31.620 truth. And that's very unusual. I know a lot of nice guys in Congress and they have 35 people that

01:56:36.740 hate him. So if you have 35 people that hate you and you only have one or two or three votes,

01:56:41.380 you'll have five, I think. But that's, that's going to be like, you know, the good news is

01:56:45.780 when we get to that five number, it's going to feel like a massive majority. We will,

01:56:51.060 you could be really nasty to a couple of them at least.

01:56:53.940 So it's going to feel like kidding your head on the wall and stopping. It feels so good to stop.

01:56:59.860 But he's done a fantastic job. And Steve Scalise is, he's our hero because, you know, I was with him.

01:57:10.820 You talk about being shot. I was with him. He got some bad ones and his incredible wife and

01:57:18.500 she really loves him. You know, you never know about that. I've been with other people.

01:57:23.460 They were doing poorly and the wife is like looking at a watch. She can't get out of the hospital

01:57:27.780 fast enough. How's he doing? I don't know. He's all right. That woman was a mess.

01:57:34.980 She was crying and crying. No, they're going to take him. They're going to take him.

01:57:39.860 I told Steve when he finally woke up, it was a while too. The doctor told me it was the most

01:57:45.140 blood they've ever transfused in any patient. They've never done anything like it. And here he is,

01:57:50.820 the picture of strength, right? And he's been a great friend of mine, right? With a family because

01:57:57.220 of the family. And what a job you did. It worked out pretty much, pretty much better than we even

01:58:04.500 thought, right? And I did have a couple of things, you know, to say that were extremely controversial.

01:58:10.580 And between JD and Melania and anybody else that heard, please, sir,

01:58:16.100 it's such a beautiful unifying speech. Please, sir, don't say these things.

01:58:22.580 I said, I'm telling you, it's going to play great. They say, you're right. For this group of

01:58:28.980 people, it's going to play great. You're the only ones I heard by that. Oh, but we had some beauties,

01:58:33.860 didn't we, Melania? And she said, sir. Calls me sir when she's angry.

01:58:38.260 I said, no. No, I'm only kidding. I better say I'm only kidding or the press is going to pick that

01:58:44.900 one up loud. No, but she said, no, I think it's, it would be terrible. It's such a nice speech. I

01:58:53.220 think it's, you know, it all depends on your delivery. How was the delivery? Was it good?

01:58:57.380 But she said, it's such a beautiful, such a beautiful speech. You can't put things in there

01:59:06.260 that you were going to put in. And I was going to talk about the J6 hostages, but you'll be happy

01:59:15.780 because, you know, it's action, not words that count. And you're going to see a lot of action

01:59:20.980 on the J6 hostages. And I was going to talk about the things that Joe did today with the

01:59:31.220 pardons of people that were very, very guilty of very bad crimes, like the unselect committee of

01:59:40.020 political thugs, where they literally, I mean, what they did is they destroyed and deleted

01:59:47.380 all of the information, all of the hearings, practically not a thing left. They deleted all

01:59:55.620 the information on Nancy Pelosi, having turned down the offer of 10,000 soldiers. You wouldn't

02:00:00.660 have needed 10,000. You could have had 500 and it would have stopped because we may have a million

02:00:07.300 people that day, the people that were there. You don't see any photographs, but we have a lot of great

02:00:11.780 photos, but you don't see those photographs. They don't put them in. They show the people at the

02:00:16.020 Capitol. But I was talking about that. I was going to talk about that. They said,

02:00:23.300 please don't bring that up right now. You can bring it up tomorrow. I said, how about now in

02:00:27.620 front of the very, I'll bring it up right now. You know, this little time delay is good because

02:00:34.820 we're getting great reviews on the speech. Now watch, they'll take the speech and say, I didn't

02:00:39.220 like it because he left there and he's talked to people, but we're giving you a little more information

02:00:44.020 that we gave upstairs. But no, they pardoned a lot of people. They pardoned, before we even get to

02:00:49.620 today, they pardoned, what is it, 33 murderers, absolute murderers, the worst murderers. You know,

02:00:57.140 when you get the death sentence in the United States, you have to be bad because they don't give it much.

02:01:03.700 And he pardoned almost everybody having a death sentence. And if you went through the crimes

02:01:08.740 that were committed, you wouldn't even believe them, the level of violence, the people that were killed,

02:01:16.340 the innocence of people that were killed and children killed by these people, and he pardoned them for whatever

02:01:21.060 reason. He spared them, but they didn't spare the people that they killed. And, you know, who knows what

02:01:27.860 happens in the future. It's one of the worst because a lot of times they let them out early after that. You know,

02:01:32.180 they say you're going to be in for life, but then all of a sudden they get let out for good behavior,

02:01:37.700 and then they go on a rampage. It's one of those little things, right? But I was going to talk about

02:01:42.980 that. But I was really going to talk about the level of, you know, what's going on? Why are we doing

02:01:50.100 this? Why are we trying to help a guy like Millie? Why are we doing Millie? He was pardoned. What he said,

02:01:57.780 terrible, what he said. Why are we helping some of the people? Why are we helping Liz Cheney? I mean,

02:02:04.580 Liz Cheney is a disaster. She's a crying lunatic and crying, crying Adam Kinzinger. He's a super

02:02:11.460 crying. I never saw the guy not crying. He's always crying. I looked at him. I remember years ago,

02:02:16.820 he was actually on my side. And then one day, you know, when you don't want to kill people in wars,

02:02:21.940 they turn against you. Liz Cheney hated the concept of, of not going to war with everybody.

02:02:27.700 Let's kill everybody. Let's kill everybody. Let's spend a lot of money on military equipment,

02:02:31.780 you know, where her father works, right? And, uh, but what she did was incredible.

02:02:37.540 Think of it. They destroyed and deleted all of that information that went on for almost two years

02:02:42.660 against Trump. And the reason they did, because it was all false, like the person that said,

02:02:48.260 I tried to strangle a secret service agent. That's one of the toughest human beings I think I've ever seen.

02:02:54.980 I actually had a friend say, please don't change that, sir. You are the coolest sucker in history.

02:03:03.540 Remember, she said, I put my hands around his neck

02:03:07.140 because he wouldn't go to the Capitol. Made up fiction. And I was rebuffed. And the guy on the

02:03:13.380 right is a massive weightlifter, probably stronger than me. Do you think he's stronger than me, honey?

02:03:18.500 You know who I'm talking. Possibly stronger than me. Slightly younger than me. Like, I won't say how

02:03:26.100 many years, because I don't want to talk about that, but a lot of years.

02:03:29.460 But I had a friend that said, why are you disputing that story? That's the coolest story I've ever

02:03:35.700 heard. That I would attack a karate champion, get slightly rebuffed, and then throw my arms around

02:03:42.500 a guy with a neck about this big. Even though there are bars. You know, there are bars. You can't really

02:03:48.980 do that anyway. So, uh, so I wanted to talk about that. But all of that stuff got deleted. And the

02:03:56.340 reason it got deleted is they were all caught in lies. You know, secret service testified,

02:04:00.500 and they said, it didn't happen. Actually, the two guys were very embarrassed. They're suffering

02:04:06.500 because, uh, their friends are saying, did Trump really do that to you?

02:04:11.860 But they gained a whole new respect for me. But it was just make-believe stuff. And there were a lot

02:04:17.140 of make-believe stories made up. So rather than suffer the wrath, like the story with Nancy Pelosi,

02:04:23.460 I offered her 10,000 soldiers. She knows it. She admitted it on tape that her daughter made. She's a

02:04:30.340 videographer or whatever you call her, which I'm glad she is. Oh, she can't be in good stead with Nancy.

02:04:37.540 But Nancy said, it was my responsibility as she's leaving the Capitol. She said it was,

02:04:42.420 and it was. She's in charge of security at the Capitol. But I offered them

02:04:47.220 up to 10,000 soldiers, even more. One time I said, more, as many as you need. But

02:04:51.940 you needed four or five hundred. If four or five, you had 10,000. That would be

02:04:55.780 more than the number of people there, by lot. But we offered her 10,000. Think of it. 10,000

02:05:02.420 soldiers. In other words, J6 wouldn't be J6. There would have been no J6. But she rebuffed them. She

02:05:08.900 didn't like it. No, she didn't like it. Maybe she wanted that to happen. But she's guilty as hell.

02:05:14.580 And now we would have to go through the process because they destroyed all evidence. They deleted

02:05:21.220 everything. There's virtually nothing left. The other fake story and so many other fake stories.

02:05:27.620 And many people came out on our side. And those people now would get to find them. There's nothing

02:05:33.620 left. So that's a criminal offense. If that were a civil case, it would be a criminal offense.

02:05:38.740 If that were if that happened civilly where you did that, it would be a criminal offense.

02:05:43.940 So I decided I'm not going to make this speech complicated. I'm going to make it beautiful. I'm

02:05:49.140 going to make it a unifying speech. And then when they said we have a group of people that are serious

02:05:56.340 Trump fans. I said, this is the time to tell those stories.

02:06:07.380 You know,

02:06:10.900 but seriously, I'd like to I think it was a tremendous success. I think we're very lucky.

02:06:16.100 We put it inside because it is really cool. We just went to to the helicopter out of respect

02:06:23.780 something that's taken place for a long time. I guess it's as old as helicopters.

02:06:29.700 You used to get into a stagecoach. Now you get into a helicopter. Times change.

02:06:34.260 But it's pretty pretty old custom. And it's a beautiful custom, actually. It's a beautiful

02:06:40.180 custom. I wish we could have had a a better relationship. I wish we could have had a better

02:06:44.660 relationship between Republicans and Democrats. I was with Senator Schumer. I said, Chuck, I think it's

02:06:50.340 time we all start getting along a little bit because it doesn't make sense. I mean,

02:06:54.820 we literally never get a Democrat vote. They never get a Republican vote, almost.

02:07:00.180 And although there is a bill coming up very shortly that we have a lot of Democrat votes,

02:07:04.900 right? It's going to be a very beautiful bill. We're going to have a deciding, I would say,

02:07:10.660 within a week or so, I think. And it's going to be a very good bill. You all know what I'm talking

02:07:16.100 about. So I just want to thank you all for being here. You have been our fans from day one,

02:07:20.900 all these students, all these people all over. You've been our fans.

02:07:28.420 This has been, this has been a, has there ever been anything like it? There's never been anything

02:07:37.140 like it. This has been a movement like no movement ever in history for probably any country,

02:07:42.020 let alone this country. You know, if somebody is running for president and if they go out and

02:07:48.260 they announce they're going to Arizona, they're going to Nevada, they're going to some place,

02:07:53.540 if you have 200 or 300 people, that would be standard. Ronald Reagan would go out. I mean,

02:07:59.140 outside of the last couple of days where people get a little excited, but even then you have a

02:08:02.500 couple of thousand people. But if you're going to go someplace, any place, any one of the swing

02:08:09.620 states, any one of the other states, I mean, how about the non swing states? We won Alabama by 48 points.

02:08:16.420 We won Tennessee by massive numbers. Wyoming, we won by numbers that are, nobody's ever seen numbers.

02:08:25.460 And, you know, places like California, we did great, but when they send out like 38 million ballots,

02:08:30.820 nobody knows where the hell they're sending them. And then they come pouring back the whole thing.

02:08:35.060 You know, they passed a law in California that if you work in an election bureau and if you so much

02:08:41.700 as ask for a voter ID, if you say, sir, ma'am, could I please look at your voter ID? They have the right

02:08:48.740 to put you in jail. You're a criminal. Can you believe that? There's only one reason that happens.

02:08:53.780 They want to cheat. So they had it where voter ID wasn't accepted. But now if you even ask for,

02:09:00.980 this is seriously a bill that was just signed. It passed in their legislature and it was signed.

02:09:08.740 And I think when we get things cleaned up and we get back to a little bit of normalcy, I'm going to

02:09:13.780 ask the Speaker to really get involved because I think we would have won the state of California

02:09:18.900 because, you know, if you look at my numbers with Hispanic, we're at 56 percent and we were winning.

02:09:24.980 We won the Texas border that had never been won. As the governor said, he's doing a good job,

02:09:30.580 the governor, by the way, of Texas. But as the governor said, it hasn't. Oh, did I get lucky?

02:09:39.460 Did I get lucky? Supposing I said, you know, he's not here, but the governor of Texas has done a

02:09:45.620 terrible job. Wow. Look at you. You mean we couldn't get you up in the front row? I tell you.

02:09:54.980 Supposing I said, J.D., the governor of Texas, he's not doing his job. You heard what I said? See,

02:10:03.140 I didn't know you were there. I said, he's doing, he's doing a great job. He's doing a phenomenal job.

02:10:08.340 But now you're going to have a partner that's going to work with you because you didn't have,

02:10:12.420 not only didn't he have a partner, he had people selling the wall, right? We have a fence structure

02:10:19.700 that we worked on, the governor worked on with me. And I didn't love it, to be honest with you. I wanted

02:10:24.660 a nice precast concrete, you know, 40, 50 feet high, like a beautiful, could have been a T-shaped,

02:10:31.460 Y-shape. I love construction. I wanted that sucker to go up maybe 50, 60 feet. It would have looked

02:10:38.020 beautiful. A nice Y-shape. And they said, the problem is, sir, they climbed that like a rabbit.

02:10:44.500 I said, what do you mean? No way. And they brought some of these guys out. They climbed it like...

02:10:49.860 And the other thing is, you hit it with acid, and the thing will disintegrate. You know, they have

02:10:53.700 things for concrete. So they needed very hardened steel, very special steel. And then they did 7,000

02:10:59.860 pound concrete inside that steel, unit inside that steel. And then they have a rebar that's the toughest

02:11:05.860 steel made. Very hard to cut. So this is why very little is cut. I mean, it's right. And then they put a

02:11:12.980 anti-climb panel on top. I hated it. I said, it's so unattractive. And I said, why would that work?

02:11:20.180 I don't believe it works. And I went to watch the border patrol, gave a display. We had actually

02:11:25.540 two sets of climbers. The guys that climb up walls with drugs on their back. I mean,

02:11:30.420 they got like 60, 70 pounds of drug. And they go as fast as you can walk. They go,

02:11:34.180 bop, bop, bop. Or we have Mount Everest-type climbers. And honestly, the drug guys were much

02:11:40.500 better. I couldn't believe it. The drug guys blew them away, right? But it's true. The anti-climb

02:11:46.500 panel, they couldn't get around it. They just couldn't. You didn't have it. So sometimes you

02:11:52.100 sacrifice beauty for efficiency. And we did. So we built this wall. And we built over 500 miles of

02:12:02.180 wall. That's why we had such good numbers. The famous chart that came down, very thankfully,

02:12:06.660 the chart that came down on my right governor. Had I not looked over there, I'm not speaking right

02:12:11.860 now. You might be speaking here. You want to know the truth? You, JD, you've got a lot of great people

02:12:17.460 in this party. But it was, I got very lucky. But we had the best numbers we've ever had.

02:12:22.260 But I bought, you know, what happens is when you fill it up, it's like water. You fill it up.

02:12:25.940 Now we have 571 miles of wall. And they would always say, you know, when we renovated a wall,

02:12:33.380 so there'd be like a piece of plywood sitting there for 60 years, or a two by four sitting

02:12:40.500 for 60 years on the ground and rotting. Because, you know, and they'll say, you didn't build a new

02:12:46.660 wall. Here we're building 50 feet up in the air, 30 feet sections, 50 foot sections, all steel,

02:12:52.820 all concrete, all everything. And oh, by the way, they don't even want me to say this,

02:12:56.740 but what the hell, it doesn't take them a long time. They're all wired for all of the equipment.

02:13:01.060 We put wires in everything so they can easily wire for all the different types of equipment.

02:13:06.340 If there's a doubt, we have a wire. Whenever we just look, you just find the wires all over the

02:13:11.860 place up top. So we could just hook it up. We don't have to have wires on the outside, which

02:13:16.980 wouldn't do too well. Right. So anyway, so we built an extra 200 miles of wall

02:13:24.420 and the governor wanted to buy it. He tried to buy it and they wouldn't sell it to him. He

02:13:28.260 wanted to put it up himself. Could have been done in three to four weeks, 200 more miles, because

02:13:33.540 when you do it now, they just keep going further out, further out, further out getting around.

02:13:37.460 So we did an extra 200 miles and it was all bought. And they announced that they're not going to put

02:13:47.140 it up. And that's when I realized they wanted open borders. And that's when I realized that people

02:13:51.220 are going to come pouring through the wall like nobody's ever seen before. But you've seen it. A lot

02:13:57.940 of you are here because of that. I made it my number one issue. They all said inflation was the number

02:14:02.660 one issue. I said, I disagree. I think people coming into our country from prisons and from mental

02:14:08.100 institutions is a bigger issue for the people that I know. And I made it my number one. I talked

02:14:12.820 about inflation too, but you know, how many times can you say that an apple has doubled in cost?

02:14:18.260 I'd say it and I'd hit it hard. But then I go back to the fact that we don't want

02:14:23.460 criminals coming into our country. We don't want the jails of every country in the world virtually

02:14:29.380 being deposited into the United States. And that man had to suffer with it. And he did an unbelievable

02:14:35.220 job. I'll tell you, he was a very popular governor, but now he's like an unbeatable governor because of

02:14:40.260 your border policies. He was fantastic. And he really was. Governor Abbott, he's a great, he's a great

02:14:50.980 man, a great leader. And but it didn't make him very more. Did you do it? You didn't do that for

02:14:56.740 politics. You did it because you want to do the right thing. But I'll tell you, it sure as hell

02:14:59.860 worked for politics too. It's self-preservation. That's right. But no, because the people are

02:15:05.860 demanding it. The people of Texas are demanding it. The people are demanding it all over. So anyway,

02:15:10.500 so we built it and they wouldn't let us use it. They wouldn't let the governor use it and

02:15:16.980 other governors, they wouldn't let him use it. But he was the leader of the pack and did a great job.

02:15:22.340 And then we heard about a month ago that not only when they let it, excuse it, they were selling it,

02:15:28.580 they were going to sell it for five cents on the dollar. Now, five cents on the dollar then,

02:15:33.380 but today it would cost more than twice as much to bill because we bought it like six years ago.

02:15:39.140 And it was just sitting on the ground. And that does not do well for the whole thing. But it was

02:15:43.700 just sitting on the ground. And I heard about it. And I called the governor and I called a lot of

02:15:49.380 people, your attorney general. And here's the story. They were going to buy it. And these are

02:15:55.460 great business people. They were going to buy it for five cents on the dollar or less. And they were

02:16:02.180 calling us up. We'll sell it to you for 200 cents on the dollar. In other words, it will cost you

02:16:09.620 twice as much. So it's 200 cents on the dollar. I said, can somebody explain that to a judge?

02:16:15.780 I mean, how corrupt is that? You'd think they'd say, maybe we'll sell it to you for 20 cents, 30 cents,

02:16:24.580 but not 200 cents. So they were going to buy something for

02:16:30.020 five cents and they were going to sell it to us for a fortune. They're going to make it would be,

02:16:34.020 they'd have it down that in fortune magazine, they'd put it of the deal of the year. Okay.

02:16:39.300 You buy something like that, but it was so corrupt and so horrible.

02:16:42.340 And when we told that to the administration, they didn't care. They just kept going forward.

02:16:47.540 They couldn't care less. And they kept going forward. They knew that they were trying to sell

02:16:52.420 it back to us. They would have sold it back to us. You would have ended up buying it. You would have

02:16:56.020 paid probably 50, 60 cents. Who knows? But they're going to use it for scrap metal. But then they made

02:17:01.300 a much better deal. They could just buy it and sell it to us for 15, 20 times what they paid, 20 times.

02:17:07.460 Think of it like 20 times what they paid. And, uh, we wouldn't let it happen. And the governor

02:17:14.100 with his attorney general, Ken Paxson, they made a fantastic, uh, a good lawyer. He's pretty,

02:17:21.860 he's pushing around pretty good by people, right? I said, you got the, you got a great attorney general,

02:17:26.740 they should leave him alone. He was with me. And, but Ken and the governor went to court and a judge

02:17:32.980 actually became incensed and, and actually called for an investigation. How could a thing like this

02:17:37.780 happen? So, uh, he stopped it. So we're waiting to put that wall up. And now that you have a new

02:17:42.660 president, that wall will go up so fast. The governor will complain, sir.

02:17:50.740 This is Greg Abbott, sir, please. The wall is going up too fast. Please don't do that.

02:17:56.500 You know, the story about winning. No, no, we're going to win too much. We're winning too much.

02:18:00.820 Please. So people always love that one. We'll do this with the wall. Governor Abbott calls,

02:18:05.540 sir, the wall is going up too fast. We can't take it. We just can't take it. No,

02:18:10.020 I think you'll be very happy if the wall goes up too fast. Right. But we'll get that dude and

02:18:14.660 we'll work with you on that. But it was a great decision by a great Texas judge. Right. And, uh,

02:18:20.020 it was beautiful, beautiful to watch. We see stopped them right in their track. I mean,

02:18:23.940 they were literally loading this stuff under trucks. It was terrible. Honestly, it was terrible.

02:18:29.220 And he wouldn't take it. So I'm so glad I mentioned that they have a really good governor

02:18:32.820 in Texas. Not now. And I swear, I didn't know he was here. I swear to you. It sounds like a setup.

02:18:38.980 I didn't know you would end. Did I get lucky? I said the right thing. Because there have been

02:18:44.180 moments when I wasn't so happy with him, you know, but not too many. I can tell you that. So anyway,

02:18:49.700 it's good to see you too, governor. Great. But I just want to thank everybody. You've been, uh,

02:18:54.020 incredible. I recognize so many of you. It's so crazy. But, uh, this has been a long journey.

02:19:00.020 This was a journey that started in 2015, probably started 20 years before that. People used to say,

02:19:06.340 you're going to run for president. You're going to run, run, run. And I always said, no, no,

02:19:11.140 no, I don't want. And then one day I said, let's give it a shot. And what I talked about then was

02:19:17.940 the border too. I think it probably was the number one issue for me. Uh, back in 2015, 2016,

02:19:23.940 I talked about the border and now I talked about the border, but this border is much worse. We fixed

02:19:28.820 the border was totally fixed. There was nothing to talk about 2020. By the way, that election was totally

02:19:33.860 rigged, but these are the, that's okay. It was a rigged election. You know, the only thing good

02:19:40.740 about it, it showed how bad they are, showed how incompetent and, and frankly, historically,

02:19:46.180 this is a much bigger event. If that would have gone like it should have, the only, the bad thing

02:19:51.060 about it is some bad things happen. Like a lot of people in our country that wouldn't be in our

02:19:55.060 country right now. So, you know, that's the, that's the bad part. But I will say that, uh,

02:20:00.900 it started in 2015 and right from the beginning, we went, went to the top that day one, they announced

02:20:07.300 Trump and Trump went to number one and stayed there for the whole primary. And then we took on

02:20:13.700 Hillary. She didn't look too happy today. We took on Hillary, a very nice person, but we took on Hillary

02:20:22.180 and we defeated Hillary. And then we, uh, did much better the second time in 2020. You know,

02:20:27.940 we've got millions more votes. We got millions, like 10, 12 million more votes than we did the

02:20:33.060 first time. No president has ever gotten that many more votes. I got like nine million more

02:20:39.140 than anybody else had ever gotten. And they said, we lost. And because of that,

02:20:44.900 I said to Melania, what do you think? And she said, you want to do this again?

02:20:50.740 And, and had I, had we lost and had I thought we lost, I wouldn't do it again.

02:20:54.340 Cause that's like the ultimate poll, right? But I knew how well we did. And this time we,

02:20:59.140 we made it too big to rig. It was so big. They tried, they tried, they tried like that.

02:21:08.020 They tried, they tried to do it. And around 902, they gave up last time.

02:21:13.860 They did bad things at this time. They just said, yes, you know, um, I don't know if you saw,

02:21:18.660 Mr. Speaker in Washington, they had placards. They were all set to march. They thought it'd be

02:21:24.180 closer. Uh, a gentleman asked me, a very respected gentleman asked me yesterday,

02:21:29.220 how come the polls were so wrong? They showed you winning, but not in a landslide.

02:21:34.500 I said, because people that are true Trumpers are so angry at the whole polling system and about,

02:21:41.540 and, and at the writers, the fake news that they don't want to talk to anybody. So when you call

02:21:46.500 somebody from Trump, who are you voting for? They say, it's none of your business. I'm not telling

02:21:53.780 you. And that was probably 40% of the people they called. So they would discard that one and they

02:22:00.980 didn't show that. And then when the election happened, you know, the vote came and it was

02:22:05.860 much different, much higher than we're going to win. But they thought they really thought,

02:22:10.420 they couldn't believe the one man said, I mean, it was so much higher. We won all seven swing states.

02:22:15.220 We won the popular vote by millions of votes, which is hard for a Republican.

02:22:19.700 I'll tell you who came through the unions came through the auto workers were great. The teamsters

02:22:23.700 were great. The firemen were great. I think every, almost every union was great. The only one that

02:22:29.460 weren't great, although Sean was great. And, uh, and the teamsters, the head of the Sean O'Brien,

02:22:36.020 the head of the teamsters was fantastic. But, uh, generally speaking, the head of the union was

02:22:42.260 against Trump, but the union would be with us for like 80, 85%. Look what we did with the

02:22:48.340 auto workers in Michigan. Look what we did with the teamsters. The teamsters were unbelievable.

02:22:52.980 They were a solid Democrat vote and they voted for Trump. So we had a great experience. This has

02:22:59.140 been, now we have to go to work and get it done because we have to do something that's going to be

02:23:03.300 great. We're going to turn our country around and we're going to turn it around fast. And I think

02:23:09.700 this was a better speech than the one I made upstairs. Okay. I think this was better, JD.

02:23:16.100 I think this was much better. And I got to see my friend. So governor, take care of yourself. You

02:23:24.100 call me, we'll start working. Uh, you know what that means with him. He's going to be calling me

02:23:28.500 tomorrow morning at about six. And I said, how about next week? Uh, you call me and we're going to get

02:23:33.860 it started real fast. We'll really help you a lot. You've done a fantastic job protecting something

02:23:38.660 which is, it's not supposed to be for the States. And, uh, amazing job you've done. Thank you very much.

02:23:44.500 And I want to thank everybody. Uh, and I have a first lady who's been incredible.

02:23:56.660 I shouldn't say this. I'm going to get hell when I say this, but her feet are absolutely aching.

02:24:03.620 You know, those heels and we thought we were leaving. We were going home. Sir, would you be able to

02:24:10.900 go down and say hello to some of your other fans that are here? I said, Oh, I didn't know that.

02:24:17.060 Well, did you get to see pretty clearly the picture? I hope. Good. That's good. But cause you

02:24:22.740 wouldn't want to make the same sweet speech again. Right. But she said, uh, darling, I love you so

02:24:28.100 much, but my feet are killing me. I said, honey, uh, let me just see how far it is. I asked the person.

02:24:34.660 Oh, not that long, maybe four or 500 yards. That's five foot wall fields.

02:24:39.700 I said, can you make it? She said, we're going to make it no matter what. We're going to make it

02:24:44.100 because we have to go. Right.

02:24:52.020 And then we went out to the helicopter though, just prior to this and said goodbye. And it's a

02:24:57.380 custom and the wind is blowing like crazy. And with the hat that she's wearing, she almost blew away.

02:25:02.900 We almost lost off. She was being elevated off the ground. She almost blew away. No. So we all

02:25:11.780 appreciate it because you, uh, you've been a great first lady, a beautiful and a great place.

02:25:18.260 And they love our first lady. You know, JD, whenever I make a speech, I see hundreds of times.

02:25:24.980 We love our first lady. And they do. And they should. She's great. So I just want to thank you.

02:25:30.740 Thank you. Thank you very much. I just want to thank everybody.

02:25:34.740 And, uh, I felt that I said to JD, should we give them the A treatment, the B treatment,

02:25:41.780 the C, the D or the F? You know, the F is. Hello, everybody. Thank you for being here. Bye bye.

02:25:47.940 I gave you the A plus treatment. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you, Governor. Thank you all very much.

02:25:54.740 Thank you. Appreciate it.

02:26:05.620 There's just never been anybody like this guy. No, we haven't.

02:26:07.780 We've been, the President of the United States giving a second inaugural address

02:26:11.860 off the cuff in the overflow room for people who didn't make it into the inaugural, uh, into the

02:26:18.500 Capitol Rotunda for the inauguration, which included governors and, and I don't know about

02:26:22.980 legislators, but many other dignitaries. The speech started sort of like, um, the interview with the

02:26:28.820 quarterback after the game. Yes, it was a post-game interview.

02:26:31.700 Post-game interview. And then turned into, uh, uh, praise for- It's a fixation of, I think, all of

02:26:38.260 human history. Yes, but a very, very personally aimed at Governor Abbott of Texas. Yeah. And then

02:26:44.980 very funny remarks about First Lady Melania Trump. My favorite part was him making fun of his wife's

02:26:49.700 hat. Yeah. That's bold. Yeah, that's- Make fun of your wife's apparel in a suit. That is dangerous.

02:26:55.380 And then he finishes up, ba-ba-da, ba-da. That is what people love though, the fact that not only

02:27:00.500 was it inside baseball on the post-game interview, what'd you guys think about this at the thing

02:27:05.140 upstairs? But then even, he did a post that speech speech. And this speech, I didn't know what I was

02:27:11.940 gonna give you, okay? A, B, C, D, F, you know what? I gave you all the A-plus treatment. Bye.

02:27:18.340 So we're gonna talk about the media's reaction to the President's first speech, which is already

02:27:22.340 starting to happen. And you will not be surprised to hear that they aren't very happy.

02:27:28.020 Truly a unique inauguration. Yep.

02:27:31.140 And it was, in a way, I mean, as the media is saying, it was a divisive speech. And it was

02:27:35.780 somewhat divisive for an inaugural address. I mean, one interesting thing about having a

02:27:41.060 non-consecutive second term is that you have a President who does have a grievance. He's coming

02:27:47.060 into his second term not fresh off of his first, but having been, he believes, unjustly defeated in

02:27:53.620 the election. I think we all agree unjustly persecuted and even prosecuted by the government

02:27:58.660 since the time of his presidency. And so he threw some jabs. Yeah, I think that, you know, not to

02:28:06.740 steal Michael's shtick of citing annoying philosophers, but, you know, the Hegelian synthesis never takes

02:28:13.780 place here, right? So normally you say there's thesis, antithesis, synthesis, right? You have

02:28:17.060 like one thing and then it's opposite and then they come together in the third thing. Well,

02:28:20.340 what if it just went thesis, antithesis, thesis, right? Because that's what we just did with the

02:28:25.460 presidency. And I think that's the thing that President Trump is saying. I think what he's

02:28:28.500 saying is, listen, you know, my ideas won. My ideas won, right? You tried my ideas and then you

02:28:33.540 tried the opposite ideas and then my ideas won. And so why would I stand up here and pretend

02:28:38.420 that there's some sort of coming together around the ideas that lost to me? You tried it. You tried it.

02:28:43.060 You got to see both sides. And then you guys decided with all the bad things on the table,

02:28:46.260 it wasn't as though anything was hidden in this election cycle. We had everything,

02:28:49.300 right? We had a full laundry. We had a full airing of grievances about January 6th. Then

02:28:53.460 we had a full airing of grievances about COVID and now about BLM and about trans and all that stuff.

02:28:57.380 And you chose me. And because you chose me, now I get to say the thing, which is I won. This is not

02:29:02.180 an experiment. I won. So here's what I'm going to do now that I won. And all the things that were bad

02:29:06.980 that you hated. And I think that there was a tacit acknowledgement by President Trump that one

02:29:11.140 of the reasons he's back is because Joe Biden. It is because Joe Biden. I mean, my heart soared

02:29:16.980 a couple of times today. One was when President Trump actually took the oath of office and Joe

02:29:20.260 Biden was no longer president. And the other was when we all personally saw the helicopter take off.

02:29:24.820 When the helicopter took off, a load was lightened from my heart. And suddenly,

02:29:29.940 really, because every day you woke up in Joe Biden's America and it was like,

02:29:33.220 what bad thing is this terrible person going to do to the country today?

02:29:37.140 Literally 15 minutes before he ceased to be the president, he pardoned his entire immediate

02:29:43.140 family, which is one of the most corrupt and now precedent setting events that we've witnessed

02:29:48.580 in our lifetime. In 2020, he literally said, you should not do this. He said, because there was

02:29:52.580 talk that Trump was going to do this on his way out of office. And Biden was like, you can't do that.

02:29:56.260 That's terrible. And norms defying. And now he uses Trump as an excuse to pardon his entire family.

02:30:00.820 Well, I mean, here's the thing. Once you do that, then you have now,

02:30:04.660 you've basically excused all criminality by all first families for the rest of time.

02:30:09.460 This will now be de rigueur. This goes back to the divisiveness of the speech. You know,

02:30:13.620 Barack Obama, the great deceiver, was deceived Americans by saying,

02:30:17.700 mostly we fight over the 50 yard line. That was true until Barack Obama.

02:30:22.020 And the thing is, it's not like he's taking over from somebody who increased the welfare state a little

02:30:26.420 bit or, you know, had some programs that we didn't like or something like that. He's talking about

02:30:30.660 people who were actually not just, and not just corrupt, but oppressive, uh, anti-American.

02:30:36.580 We're teaching our children, anti-Americanism. He, there's no reason to include them. And the fact,

02:30:41.380 you know, we were sitting around thinking, saying, oh, the New York Times just said,

02:30:44.420 what a dark picture he painted of America. And I'm thinking, nobody cares what you say.

02:30:47.620 Yeah.

02:30:48.020 Nobody cares what you say.

02:30:48.900 And darken for you, I guess.

02:30:50.100 Do not represent the people.

02:30:51.220 And the thing about the pardons too, is that just the precedent that it sets for such a frivolous

02:30:56.580 reason, because it's not even as though, and we all know this and Biden knows this,

02:31:00.820 Trump was not going to go after any of these people. He wasn't going to go after the Biden

02:31:04.180 family. It was not going to happen in a million years. The only reason Biden's doing it is just

02:31:08.180 as a blast little political stunt to try to make it seem as though Trump is this vengeful

02:31:13.380 dictator who was going to try to put his whole family in prison.

02:31:15.860 I'm not, I'm not sure about that. I think he did it because he had to do it because he

02:31:20.580 had pardoned Hunter. I think he pardoned Hunter. And then all of his other kids were like, well,

02:31:25.060 now they're going to come after me. There is this weakness that-

02:31:29.300 But Liz Cheney, Fauci, I mean-

02:31:31.300 Mark Milley?

02:31:31.860 Well, yeah.

02:31:32.420 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

02:31:33.300 Yeah.

02:31:33.700 No, that's a valid.

02:31:35.140 I do think that he has built up. Biden's, he had to have some sort of world shaking excuse

02:31:40.260 for why he wanted to run again. Because the tacit bargain of his election in 2020 was that he

02:31:45.300 was only going to serve one term.

02:31:46.260 Yeah.

02:31:46.580 And he could, I mean, he almost said it clearly during the campaign. And then he basically

02:31:50.340 changed his mind in 2022.

02:31:51.460 He said I'm a transitional president.

02:31:52.820 Correct. And then in 2022, he changed his mind and he decided he was going to run again. So the

02:31:57.060 question became, what is the thing that is motivating you to run again? And he basically

02:32:01.140 said, it's that the tyranny that Donald Trump is going to bring upon the world is the reason I

02:32:05.460 must run again. And so he can't let go of that idea.

02:32:08.100 Yeah.

02:32:08.420 He can't let go of it because the minute he lets go of it, then it really defies why

02:32:12.100 he supposedly ran in second place. Right. And so he has to keep maintaining that myth. I think

02:32:17.060 people can't handle cognitive dissonance and Biden is no exception to this. And so he had,

02:32:20.740 he had to just keep maintaining the facade that if he had not pardoned everyone in a 300 mile radius,

02:32:26.340 then Donald Trump was going to go after everyone. By the way, Anthony Fauci actively suppressed,

02:32:30.580 actively used the power of government to suppress actually good information being put out by the

02:32:34.980 very guy who's going to end up leading the NIA, Jay Bhattacharya. And the people he's

02:32:39.220 pardoning did terrible, terrible things. They really did. Yeah. And, and if, if you,

02:32:43.780 if he says that he trusts the legal system, which he clearly does not, then he wouldn't have done

02:32:47.780 this. Yeah, that's right. Right. It exposes the whole fraud of what he was and what the system is.

02:32:51.300 It also, by these blanket pardons for crimes, no one's even been accused of a crime. Yeah.

02:32:56.500 I mean, there are, there's no investigation into Fauci. No charges have been brought against Fauci.

02:33:00.580 When you pardon someone for a hypothetical crime, you are removing the power of the people

02:33:07.460 to have any transparency into their government, to have any justice within their government.

02:33:11.460 The constitution says he can pardon people who have committed offenses against the federal

02:33:16.420 government. And the archivist says that that means you have to have committed a crime to,

02:33:20.420 to get a pardon. Does the Nixon precedent though ameliorate that somewhat? Had Nixon hadn't been,

02:33:25.220 hadn't been charged with the crime. That is the one exception, I think. Well,

02:33:28.660 I guess. Jimmy Carter pardoned all the draft dodgers, even, even those who hadn't been.

02:33:32.740 Yeah. But, but it was a narrow pardon. It was not blanket, a blanket pardon.

02:33:36.740 Yes. When Jimmy Carter, he, yes, he pardoned them for dodging the draft. He didn't say anything

02:33:42.340 that you may have done heretofore has now been pardoned. Yeah.

02:33:45.700 Yeah. No, it's, it's crazy. I mean, it's, it's, it's the, it's the letter from the Three Musketeers,

02:33:49.540 right? The bearer has been, has done what has been done, right? Yeah. Right.

02:33:52.340 It's, it's, it's an insane thing to blanket pardon Hunter, especially because, I mean,

02:33:56.820 for all I know, Hunter may have, you know, committed the arson in Los Angeles, given the

02:34:00.580 fact that allegedly, you know, all of his paintings were insured. That's a joke, guys. It's not real.

02:34:06.340 Okay. 200 paintings.

02:34:09.380 Today. Who's the insurance company on that? What a loss.

02:34:11.300 So a few months ago, that was about $50 billion in, in art value. And today,

02:34:16.100 I think it's worth less than the canvas they were painted on.

02:34:18.340 What was it? Nero said, what an artist the world loses to me. That's, I think, Hunter Vaughn.

02:34:25.540 And Fauci probably is complicit in one of the great crimes in human history, is the truth.

02:34:30.340 I mean, it's easy to blame the Chinese because the virus came out of China.

02:34:34.820 Fauci was almost certainly financing that. He helped us. He was demonstrably financing

02:34:39.940 the type of research that was involved in the release of COVID. I mean, honestly,

02:34:44.340 even if you put that stuff aside, that the thing that Fauci did to shut down any possible

02:34:48.580 dissemination of information or alternative points of view with regard to shutting down

02:34:52.420 the entirety of the country, that's the part that, to me, is, if not borderline criminal,

02:34:56.500 actually criminal. I mean, that is a wild thing that happened. And you can kind of feel the stain

02:35:01.620 of the last four years washing away. It's going to be, it will be fascinating to kind of think what

02:35:06.180 the legacy of Joe Biden will be 10 years from now. Or even, like, I think we all forgot he was,

02:35:11.060 for example, we forgot he was president the day that the election was over. That's right.

02:35:16.500 The entire world treated Donald Trump like he was president. Joe Biden was an afterthought.

02:35:19.940 I mean, there were deals happening in the Middle East, and Joe Biden just wasn't even a part of it.

02:35:23.140 I think it goes beyond that. People stopped treating Joe Biden as the president the moment Kamala

02:35:28.340 Harris announced for the president. He disappeared off the stage of history.

02:35:31.540 Well, you heard Mike Johnson's story about the fact that he didn't even know what executive order

02:35:36.340 he'd signed. It's a truly terrifying. It's a terrifying account. Yeah. And from a very credible

02:35:41.140 source. And nobody has, none of the press corps has bothered to try to find out who's running the

02:35:45.380 country. And Biden did an interview, I forget what publication, maybe a month ago, where he was

02:35:51.860 asked in the interview, well, could you have even served another four years? And his answer in that

02:35:55.700 interview was, well, well, well, who knows? No one knows the future. So finally he admits that,

02:36:01.060 you know, long after the fact. One of the things I think that we should do, and here I'm going to

02:36:05.940 tout a Jeremy Boring original idea. This is an idea that I have to tout it to congressional

02:36:10.100 leadership as well. What Democrats have demonstrated over the course of the last four

02:36:13.460 years, if you didn't already know it under Barack Obama, is they do not care about the institutions,

02:36:17.540 laws, and rules of the United States. They do not care about them at all, at all. And so what

02:36:21.940 Jeremy has proposed, and I think it's quite a good idea, is that one of the key institutions that's

02:36:25.860 upholding the capacity of the United States to function is the filibuster in the Senate.

02:36:30.900 And we know for a fact that the Democrats were going to nuke that filibuster if they got a hold

02:36:34.260 of the Senate, the presidency. They were going to do it. And so what Jeremy's proposed, and if you

02:36:39.540 want to lay it out, you can, but I'm going to do it faster. So in any case, the basic idea that

02:36:44.260 Jeremy proposed, which is a good one, is that the Republicans in the Senate should propose a

02:36:48.180 constitutional amendment to enshrine the Senate filibuster in the Constitution. And if it's not

02:36:52.180 cleared in 18 months, they should nuke it. Meaning that either we're all on board or we're not on board.

02:36:57.220 Yeah, that's a good idea. Do we want to preserve our norms? Then let's do it. If not,

02:37:00.740 we're not just going to wait for you to be the one. Yeah, yeah. Because guaranteed,

02:37:03.380 the next time the Democrats have power, they're going to kill it. You know, by saying that if we

02:37:07.060 don't do it, the Republicans will, which is exactly the shtick. Always this is the shtick. But

02:37:11.620 nature is beginning to heal. The sun is out. The sun is shining. The birds are tweeting. It's like

02:37:16.500 the end of a Disney movie. It truly is the old Disney movie.

02:37:21.220 It is actually true that in the moment that President Trump gave his acceptance speech in 2016,

02:37:26.580 it began to rain. And as soon as he started giving his speech today, the sun came out.

02:37:31.380 God's writing is like getting more obvious. God's writing is on the nose.

02:37:34.740 It is a great day for the country. And one of the things that's important to me is that people

02:37:38.260 remember you're not going to get everything you want. Every president is a mixed bag. Donald Trump

02:37:43.220 will be a mixed bag. You're going to get things that you want. You're going to get things that you don't

02:37:45.700 want. There's going to be disappointments. There's going to be failures. There's going to be

02:37:48.420 unforeseen challenges. But you know who would not have been a mixed bag? Kamala Harris. She just

02:37:53.460 would have been the bag. And just in winning, Donald Trump has changed the course of our nation's

02:38:00.740 history. And so when the challenges come that are in front of us, when the disappointments come in

02:38:04.900 front of us, when he does things that don't feel like what you thought you were supporting, when we

02:38:08.900 get policy that won't be as good on economics as maybe what Ben and I, free economics is what Ben

02:38:14.020 and I would like, or when he has to kill some people overseas and Tucker Carlson gets apoplectic

02:38:19.060 because only our enemies say that we should kill people overseas or whatever it happens.

02:38:24.900 Just know that we do live in a better world than the world we would have lived in

02:38:29.140 had this not happened. And that's not to say that Trump isn't going to do great things. I think he is.

02:38:35.300 I think the beauty of a non-consecutive term is that he comes in empowered instead of,

02:38:40.900 it's not a stay the course. Ben, your point is great. He doesn't just have a popular mandate

02:38:44.820 because he won the popular vote. He has a popular mandate because a stark choice was given to people

02:38:49.540 in the timeline and they chose Trump's policies. And so I think he's going to have a very energetic

02:38:54.180 second term. But whatever the outcome of it is, it is a far, far better day today than it would have

02:38:59.940 been if we were swearing in either a second term of Joe Biden or a first term of Kamala Harris.

02:39:06.020 The next four years are ours. All of the opportunity is on our side if we will just

02:39:12.020 seize it. So let's seize it. Thanks for hanging out with us today at Daily Wire Plus. We're going

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02:39:27.220 We'll look forward to seeing you next time in Donald Trump's America.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 21, 2025

DW Live from D.C.

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